Historical and Art Medals

1895. France. Thirteenth Bordeaux Exhibition, Société Philomatique, bronze Art Nouveau prize medal by Alphonse Rivet, bust right of Burdigala, personification of the city, a ship on her head, reverse partly draped female figure holding a book and a pen, tablet below, SOmm (BDM V, p. 135). Extremely fine, with a charming portrait (£20-30)