British and World Historical Medals

France, Léonce Hély d’Oissel, Président de la Société Générale, 1914, a silver plaque by D.P. Puech, bust left, rev. legend in 9 lines, 75 x 60mm. About extremely fine, rare; in brown fitted case of issue £50-70

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the Revd. John Watson.

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Provenance: DNW Auction 40, 14 April 1999, lot 771.

Jean-Léonce-Frédéric Hély d’Oissel (1841-1920), a cavalry officer in his youth, was also a député for the département of Seine-et-Oise and a vice-président of the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l’Ouest