Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

Belgium, Exposition Universelle, Liège, 1905, a gilt-bronze award medal by P. Dubois, seated symbolic females, rev. seated semi-nude female figure of Fame blowing trumpet, named (Gerald A. Kiralfy, Esq), 70mm (BDM VII, 237; BM Acq. 1978-82, p.15, 59; cf. BDW 18, 681). Extremely fine, an interesting association piece (£30-40)

Provenance:
DNW Auction 50, 20 June 2001, lot 1273.

Gerald Archibald Kiralfy, son of Imre Kiralfy (†April 1919), commissioner-general of all the important exhibitions held in London between 1895 and 1914 and designer of the White City stadium preparatory to the 1908 Olympics. Kiralfy, who lived at Churt, Hampshire, lost a son, Dennis, a pilot in the RAFVR, in January 1941. The recipient’s medal from the Japanese-British Exhibition of 1910 was sold by DNW in July 2005