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France, Le Rêve du Travailleur, 1905, a bronze trial of the reverse of the medal by J.V.J.A. Ségoffin for the SAMF, naked workman sat under a tree, sailing boat and rising sun behind, 68mm (Coll. R. Marx 121; Weil and Coullaré, The Medal 29, p.57; BDM V, 463; cf. DNW 30, 837). Extremely fine, scarce (£50-70)

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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Ex BDW 9 (686).

Jean Victor Joseph Ambroise Ségoffin (1867-1923), Toulouse-born sculptor and medallist, admirer of Rodin. Writing about Ségoffin’s symbolist medal, conceived in 1904 and issued by the SAMF in 1905, Weil and Coullaré quote from a letter written by the artist in the Archives du Musée du Luxembourg, in which he states: “Sur le revers, il se réveille encore sous l’influence de sa vision et ses idés confuses cherchent à le relier avec les réalités qui l’entourent.”