Belgium, The Gevaert International Photographic Competition, 1912, a bronze medal by C. Stoeving for Awes Munze, Berlin, naked male figure against a sea-scape, holding scales and branch, reverse legend in six lines, 60mm (cf. Simmons FPL 13, 8). Good very fine (£30-40)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Historical and Art Medals, the Property of a European Collector.

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Lieven Gevaert, Belgian photographer, founded L. Gevaert & Cie in Antwerp in 1892. The company went public in 1920 as N.V. Gevaert Photo-Producten, merging with Agfa AG of Leverkusen, Germany, to form the Agfa-Gevaert Group in 1964. Today, the group is subsumed within the Bayer Corporation in the USA