Musica in Nummis: A Collection of Medals relating to Classical Musicians

21 February 1996

Lot No 573

Richard Wagner, bronze medal, 1883, by Lauer, bust r., legend around, reverse view of opera house, Bayreuth, without legend, 49mm (Niggl –). Reverse extremely fine, obverse a little mishandled, with some small rim nicks, this almost extremely fine (£20-30)

21 February 1996

Lot No 574

Richard Wagner, undated silver medal by Anton Scharff, c. 1900, head r., reverse scene from Parcifal, with integral loop for suspension, 29mm (Niggl 2233). Good very fine, but uneven tone (£15-20)

21 February 1996

Lot No 575

Richard Wagner, large bronze medal by Rudolf Mayer, Karlsruhe, bust l,, wearing beret, reverse two Walküren, one lifting a wounded warrior, 72mm (Niggl 2213a; A.u.E. 609). About extremely fine, chocolate patina on reverse slightly rubbed (£30-40)

21 February 1996

Lot No 576

Richard Wagner, undated uniface bronze plaquette by Franz Xaver Pawlik, Vienna, bust within oval l., siren to r. holding a harp above her head, richard wagner on tablet below, 60 x 44mm (Niggl. 2222). Extremely fine, slight discolouration to left obvers margin (£30-40)

21 February 1996

Lot No 577

Medals Related to Music, Germany, Richard Wagner, cast uniface bronzed plaquette, undated and unsigned, bust of l., facsimile signature below, 99 x 63mm. Extremely fine, some discolouration (?) on upper and lower edges (£30-40)

21 February 1996

Lot No 578

Richard Wagner, uniface bronze plaquette by Heinrich Kautsch, Vienna, bust l., within oval indent, legend around, ‘1933’ impressed r., laurel spray and lyre below, impressed on reverse ‘carl poellath scrobehausen’, 70 x 47mm (cf. Niggl 2177). Extremely fine (£30-40)

21 February 1996

Lot No 579

Medals Related to Music, Germany, Richard Wagner, uniface cast bronze plaquette, undated and unsigned, bust in high relief to r., wagner in field to r., 65 x 58mm. Extremely fine (£30-40)

21 February 1996

Lot No 580

Richard Wagner, large uniface bronze medal by Hartig, Vienna, undated, bust l., signed on truncation, richard wagner around, 75mm (Niggl 2168). Extremely fine (£30-40)

21 February 1996

Lot No 581

Carl Maria von Weber, bronze medal, 1927, by Karl Goetz, Munich, bust three-quarters r., reverse figures in rural stting, Wartburg in distance, 72mm (Niggl 2292). Extremely fine (£30-40)

21 February 1996

Lot No 582

Austria, Charles Weinberger, uniface bronze plaquette, 1913, by A. Weinberger, Vienna, 50 x 37mm (Niggl 2307). About extremely fine (£15-20)

21 February 1996

Lot No 583

Medals Related to Music, Yugoslavia, Felix Weingartner, uniface bronze medal by Stephan Schwartz (1912), Vienna, head r., felix weingartner below, 75mm (Niggl 2309; H.u.P. 4604). Extremely fine (£30-40)

21 February 1996

Lot No 584

Hugo Wolf, uniface bronze medal, 1903, on his death, by Friedrich Kounitsky, bust three-quarters r., 59mm (Niggl 2329). Extremely fine (£20-30)

21 February 1996

Lot No 585

‘Musique Elizabethaine’, bronze medal by Magdeleine Mocquot, Paris, ‘bronze 1977’ on edge, 80mm (Niggl 2705). About as struck (£20-30)

21 February 1996

Lot No 586

Medals Related to Music, Austria, Musical Society, bronze plaquette, 1901, by Alexander Leisek, Vienna, for 20th Anniversary, four male figures, perhaps the founders, in contemporary clothes facing each other, reverse figures in a box at a theatre, 54 x 34mm. Extremely fine (£15-20)