The Silich Collection of Historical and Art Medals (Part I)

FRANCE, Cinquantième anniversaire du Cinéma [50th Anniversary of the Cinema], 1945 [struck 1946], a bronze medal by R.B. Baron, bust of Louis-Jean Lumière left, rev. roll of cine film, edge impressed bronze and cornuocopia, 63mm, 142.62g (CGMP p.89; cf. DNW 38, 854). About extremely fine £30-£50

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Silich Collection of Historical and Art Medals.

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Auguste Marie Lumière (1862-1954) and his brother Louis-Jean (1864-1948) were the inventors of an early motion-picture projector and pioneer filmmakers. Louis-Jean developed the cinematograph at his father’s factory in Lyons. It was first demonstrated before a paying audience in Paris on 28 December 1895, when ten of the Lumière brothers’ films were shown, including a comic sequence, L’Arroseur Arose.