Historical and Art Medals

France, 1927. France. "Telegraphie Sans Fil" (Wireless), a bronze Art Deco medal by P-M Dammann, globe, reverse figure of Iris with signs of the Zodiac in a rainbow, 68mm Jones, 1979, no. 423; CGMP p. 116). About extremely fine

Art Deco medallists were not slow to commemorate and embrace the new sciences and technology of the age, including radio. Dammann uses Iris, traditionally a messenger of the Gods, and shows her with the signs of the Zodiac contained in a rainbow, to indicate the speed with which radio waves move through theheavens