Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

Switzerland, Amé Pictet, 1927, an Art Deco bronze plaque by A.C. Angst, bust right, rev. robed figure kneeling to left, holding sheaves of wheat, 48 x 42mm. Very fine, rare (£40-60)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Art Medals formed by Hans-P. Wipfler.

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Plate XXV. Amé Pictet, professor of chemistry, Geneva, the first person to synthesize nicotine in 1903; with Prof. Hans Vogel he was the first scientist to synthesise sugar as sucrose in 1928