Lot Archive

Lot

№ 242

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31 January 1996

Hammer Price:
£65

Belgium, Exposition Universelle, Liège, 1905, silver medal by G. Devreese, with bust of Gustave Francotte, 65mm (Dompierre 677); Charles van der Beken, 1908, silver laudatory medal by A. Michaux, 65mm (BDM VIII, 58); National Society for War Orphans, plated bronze medal by P. Dubois for Fonson, 61mm; other miscellaneous Belgian medals and plaques (4, three plated). [7]. Third extremely fine, others about very fine and better, first two scarce (£45-65)

Gustave Francotte, Belgian Industry minister; 80 medals struck in silver.

Charles van der Beken, Comptroller of the Brussels Mint and a personal friend of the artist Alphonse Michaux