Ancient, British and World Coins, Tokens, Historical Medals and Banknotes

Télégraphie sans Fil, 1927, a bronze Art Deco medal by P.-M. Dammann, standing figure of Iris with signs of the Zodiac behind, reverse globe encircled by an antenna emitting radio waves, TSF around tablet below, 68mm (CGMP p.116; Jones, Art of the Medal, 423; cf. BDW 5, 128 and 9, 743). One of the classic Art Deco medallic images, extremely fine and lightly patinated (£60-80)

Iris, the messenger goddess of the rainbow which was her bridge between heaven and earth, is utilised as a symbol by Dammann to indicate the speed with which wireless radio waves move through space