Auction Catalogue

6 July 2005

Starting at 9:30 AM

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Ancient, British and World Coins, Token, Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books and Banknotes

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1397

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6 July 2005

Hammer Price:
£70

France, Agriculture, or Travaux des Champs, 1904, a silver plaque by M.-A.-L. Coudray, peasant driving bullocks pulling a plough, being urged on by a boy, setting sun in background, rev. farmworker with scythe in a field of wheat, named (La Sté. des Employés de la Maison Buard-Tirand-Rousseau à leur Patron, Auguste Rousseau, Novembre 1911), 100 x 62mm (PBE 280; CGMP p.103; BM Acq. 1983-7, p.18, 33; cf. DNW 49, 916). Good very fine, attractive dark tone (£60-80)

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