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1903. Visit of Joseph Chamberlain to South Africa, silver medal by J. Fray, 51mm (E. 1876); together with Sandy & District Floral & Horticultural Society, silver prize medal, un-named, 52mm, hallmarked 1907; Liverpool, Exhibition of Sanitary Apparatus, copper prize medal, 1894 (Blackman Ventilating Co), 51mm; and a Masonic silver openwork jewel, hallmarked 1892 [4]. Second extremely fine, others very fine (£80-100)
£80–£100
c. 1915. P & O Liner, RMS Mantua, a large copper plaque by Fattorini & Sons, broadside view of the two funnelled steamer cutting through waves, 112mm. On a circular wooden frame, easel-type stand on the back, very fine, interesting (£80-100)
1922. Birmingham and Midland Institute, Alderman Martineau prize for Distinction in the theory of music, bust three-quarters right, reverse legend, edge impressed emily ellis harmony and counterpoint 1922, silver, matt finish, 51mm. Good very fine, a little discoloured, very rare (£40-60)
Hammer Price: £40
1937. Devon Federation of Master Bakers Association, a cased silver and enamel prize medal (Mudge & Son 1937); 1,200th Anniversary of Paderborn, 1977, large silver commemorative medal; and a silvered bronze medal on the Tercentenary of the death of Saint Vincent de Paul, issued by the Vincentian Fathers, Brooklyn, in box; 1965. Italy, Second Ecumenical Vatican Council, Rome, silver participation medal by Greco, angel holding hand in a gesture of peace, reverse legend, engraved “+ thomas...
Hammer Price: £50
1965. Sir Winston Churchill, 90th Birthday, 30th November, 1965, gold medals (2), by Christopher Ironside, 50 and 17.5 gms, .900 fine, both with obverse head left and reverse lion holding standard, This Was Their Finest Hour, numbered 0629 on edge. Brilliant, with certificates (£450-550)
£450–£550
Northumberland Handicrafts Guild, silver medal, 51mm, edge impressed ‘Sarah Constance Campbell’; Royal Military Police and City of Chichester March, silver medal’, 38mm, with suspension loop; other medals, badges, paranumismatic ephemera, etc (86) [88]. Many fine (£30-40)
Hammer Price: £25
Royal Institute of British Architects, a group of three prize medals: Pugin Medal, awarded for the study of mediaeval architecture [william henry bidlake ma 1885) silver, 57mm (Eim. 1471); prize medal [william h bidlake ba for measured drawings of st. Mary’s church, leicester, 1883], silver, 58mm (Taylor 24a); another, with reverse engraved [to william h. bidlake for a design for a town church 1886], silver, 57mm Extremely fine but all quite brightly cleaned (£50-60)
Hammer Price: £80
Winchester College, 500th Anniversary, silver medal by Sir George Frampton, seated figure of William of Wykeham, attended by scholars, reverse St. Mary’s chapel, 76mm (BHM 3464; E. 1785; British Sculpture 1850-1914, Fine Art Society catalogue, [1968] 55). Good very fine, has been cleaned, rare in silver (£60-80)
Hammer Price: £55
Medals Related to Music, Music Interest: Royal Military School of Music, Cousins Memorial silver prize medal, named on edge to R.P. O’Donnell South Wales Borderers 1903; Worshipful Company of Musicians, silver medal (presented 1909), together with miniature, in case of issue [3]. Rare, but both the medals heavily polished, with surface marks and badly knocked to rims, the miniature extremely fine (£60-80)
£60–£80
Music Interest:The Incorporated London Academy of Music, small 9, carat gold prize medal for Music [Jane P. Dixon, Elocution, Dec. 1928); Hackney Free and Parocchial School, Harry Sedgewick prize [Ivy Leslie, 1929], with bar for suspension, silver [2]. First extremely fine or better, second better than very fine but with some bumps to rim (£20-30)
Hammer Price: £20
Sporting Interest: London County Council Athletic Association, bronze prize medals (7), awarded for relay races, 1907-1912. Generally extremely fine but somewhat dusty (£12-15)
Hammer Price: £15
Great Britain, Sporting Interest: Olympic Games, London, 1948, Judges’ medal for Shooting, bronze, with ribbon. Extremely fine (£80-100)
Hammer Price: £130
Argentina, Inauguration of the statue of General Mendoza, 1904, silvered bronze medal, signed A. Bidoglia, view of statue, the Andes in the distance, reverse national flag, fecundo en los andes sus laureles, 56mm. Extremely fine (£20-30)
£20–£30
Argentina, “Sociedad de Beneficencia” Inaugaration of the Foundlings’ Chapel, 1914, silver gilt medal by C. & A.F. Rossi, view of chapel, reverse legend, 55mm. Extremely fine (£30-40)
£30–£40
Austria, Bishop Ditmair, Bishop of Linz, undated silver portrait medal by Leo Zimpel, bust three-quarters left, reverse Linz cathedral, 41mm. Extremely fine, toned (£20-30)
Austria, Field Marshall Radetzky, Battle of Novara, 1849, bronze medal by Canzani, Radetsky on horseback reviewing troops, reverse military trophies, 45mm; Inaugaration of statue of Radetzky, Vienna, 1892, large bronze portrait medal by Scharff, 70mm [2] Both about extremely fine, but second with a few light spots of verdigris (£30-40)
Austria, uniface bronze portrait plaquette, by Heinrich Kautsch, 1910. 76mm X 43mm. Good very fine (£20-30)
Hammer Price: £30
Austria, Third Centenary of the Canonisation of St Theresa, 1922, silver medal by Kissing, 60mm. Extremely fine (£40-60)
Austria (?), Alexander the Great, uniface Æ 88 mm, signed AL (A. Loewenthal), 1934, facing bust of Alexander in high relief. Good very fine, unusual (£20-30)
Austria, Society of Engineers and Architects, large bronze octagonal award, by F. Winkler, seated muscular male figure holding a hammer and a laurel wreath, reverse engraved ‘jng josef tauber 1.I.1885- 25.iv. 1935’, 80mm. Extremely fine (£40-50)
Austria, St Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna, uniface bronze plaquette, c.1900, by Rudolf Neuberger, 78mm x 58mm. Extremely fine, with fine architectural detail (£20-25)
Belgium, Defence of Loncin, 1914, bronze commemorative medal by Devreese, bust of Lt. General Leman to left, reverse dead soldier laying in devasted battlefield, 69mm (BM “Aquisititions of Medals“ 40). Extremely fine (£15-20)
Belgium, American Aid to Belgium, 1914, silvered bronze medal by Devreese, conj. heads of Albert and Elizabeth left, reverse semi-draped female figure representing the USA offering sheafs of wheat to a Belgium family, 70mm. Good extremely fine (£15-20)
Belgium, Yser, 1916, and Ypres, 1918, bronze medal by Charles Samuel, river god, military figures wither side, reverse British soldier amidst the ruins of Ypres, 70mm (BM AoM [1985] 110). Good very fine (£15-20)
Belgium, Flanders Offensive and Entry of the King into Brussels, bronze medal by Leroy Hippolyte, charging figure of Beglian intantryman, reverse king and queen on horseback, and other figures, 70mm. Extremely fine (£12-15)
Belgium, Animal Society or Cat Show gilt bronze prize medal, heads of long-haired and short-haired cats threequarters right, reverse three kittens peering over a scroll on which is engraved “offert par monsieur ch. fournier 8.9. avril 1933. Extremely fine, a well executed study (£10-15)
BRUNEI, Visit of Elizabeth II, 1972, silver medal by Spink, bust right, reverse bust of Sultan Bolkiah right, 57mm. Some scuffing on reverse, otherwise extremely fine and brilliant (£20-30)
Chile, International Exposition, 1875, bronze prize medal (Primer Premio), by Alphée Dubois, head of the Republic in antique helmet in high relief to right, reverse legend within wreath, 68mm (BDM I, p. 631). Extremely fine (£30-40)
Denmark, 1852, Industrial Exposition, Copenhagen, white metal medal by Philip Christian Batz, head of Frederick VII to right, reverse view of exhibition building (BDM I, p.135),alittle scuffed, good very fine ; 1927. Sweden. Gustav V, silver prize medal for horse racing, by Lindberg, head of Gustav V to left, reverse racehorse, fÖr hÄstafvelns frÄjande above, priselÖning below, edge stamped ‘silver 1927’, 43mm [2], practically mint state, and of excellent work, with a good portrait...
France, Antwerp attacked by the English, 1809, bronze medal by Domard and Depaulis, Jupiter seated on his throne, reverse standing figure representing Antwerp, 41mm (Bramsen 870; T.N. 33, 4). Nearly extremely fine (£15-20)
France, Visit of Emperor Alexander I to Paris, 1814, bronze medal by Andrieu, bust in high relief to right, reverse History seated writing on a tablet, 41mm (Bramsen 1464). About extremly fine (£15-20)
FRANCE, Louis Philippe I, Accession medal,1833, silver, by J.P. Montagny for de Rigny, reverse CHERBOURG, 42mm, scuffed, minor rim marks, brightly cleaned, about very fine; together with Amiens, Water Sports, silver prize medal by J. Dantzell, undated, un-named, 53mm [2], brilliant mint state, in contemporary shagreen case (£50-60)
£50–£80
France, Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, silver prize medal by A.A. Caqué, 1860, for Paris, un-named, 41mm (BDM I, 344); similar medals with different busts (2), for Angers, 1862, and Laon, 1866, both un-named. The 1862 extremely fine and toned, others about extremely fine but brightly cleaned (3) (£70-90)
£70–£90
FRANCE, Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, 1861, silver prize medal by A.A. Caqué, for Quimper, named (Madame la Princesse Baciocchi), 41mm (BDM I, 344); a similar medal, 1863, for Rennes, named (Princesse Bacciochi); Society of Agriculture, Sciences &c. of Puy and Haute-Loire, silver prize medal by A. Bescher and A. Borrel, named (Exposition du Puy, Mr Vincent, 1868), 36mm [3]. All extremely fine and toned (£60-90)
£60–£90
FRANCE, Prince Adalbert de Bavière, Propagation des Races Bovines, 1861,copper medal by L. Leigh, bust right, reverse legend, named (Mr. W.F. Van Otterloo, Secrétaire Intime de Cour…Normande…1865), 42mm; together with copper prize medals (3), Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, by J.J. Barre, for Cheese, Paris, 1865, un-named, 50mm; Universal Exposition, Paris, 1867, by H. Ponscarme, named (S. Barber & Cie), 51mm; Rifle Shooting Society of Picardy, 1867, by F. Harson, un-named, 53mm...
France, Amiens, prize medal, 1862, in silver, by J. Dantzell, arms, reverse wreath, un-named, thick flan, 52mm, brilliant, light olive tone, in contemporary shagreen case; together with other similar un-named medals (2), in silver, thin flan [3], about very fine, and copper, brilliant, in case with 1869 in gilt on lid (£60-80)
France, J.P.G. Viennet, Academician and Freemasonry Grand Master,1862, copper medal by A. Dubois, bust left, reverse masonic column and wreath, 51mm (BDM –). Some surface marks, very fine, rare (£30-45)
£30–£45
France, Ministry of Public Instruction, 1869, silver medal after A.J. Depaulis, bust of Napoleon III, reverse legend, 35mm; together with Chambre Syndicale des Charbon des Bois, 1862, silver medal, unsigned, 32mm; a silver prize medal by A. Desboeufs, bust of Napoleon III, reverse wreath, un-named, 36mm. About extremely fine and better, last toned (3) (£50-70)
Hammer Price: £45
France,1870, A small group of satirical pieces of Napoleon III (8), VAMPIRE DE LA FRANCE, etc., including two 10 Centime coins with engraved busts; together with a small silver and enamel badge, République Française, 1870, with suspension [9]. Fine and better (£30-50)
France, The Church of St. Pierre de Montrouge, Paris, a large copper medal, 1870, by C.J.M. Degeorge, cherubs holding scroll with plan of church, reverse interior of building, 75mm (BDM –). A superb architectural medal in brilliant mint state, with full original colour (£35-50)
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