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

FRANCE, Inaugure de Transpyrenéen Bedous-Canfranc [Inauguration of the Trans-Pyrenean Railway Tunnel], 1928, an Art Déco bronze plaque by F.-M. Michelet, robed female standing on railway bogey dividing tunnel entrances in cartouches, rev. the tunnel imaged on a view of the Pyrenees, legend in 10 lines below, edge impressed bronze and cornucopia, 64 x 57mm, 113.61g (cf. Aureo & Calicó 395, 398; cf. DNW 30, 773). Very fine £50-£70

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

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The railway tunnel between Bedous and Canfranc was opened in the presence of Alfonso XIII of Spain and Gaston Doumergue, President of France, on 18 July 1928.