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France, Art Appliqué à l’Industrie, 1884, a plated bronze award plaque by L.-O. Roty for the Société d’Encouragement à l’Art et à l’Industrie, helmeted head of La Republique left, reverse Vulcan showing his work to Minerva, named (Madame Gustave Larroumet, Membre Honoraire, 1929), 59 x 42mm (Roty Compagnonnage p.88; Coll. R. Marx 9 and 69; cf. CGMP p.360 for types; cf. BDM V, 230; Gaz. Num. 1897, p.133, 8 variety). Extremely fine, scarce (£40-60)

Mme Larroumet, widow of the jewellery historian Gustave Larroumet who was commemorated on a plaque by Chaplain (Coll. R. Marx 201-2)