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Click here to subscribeA Victorian bronze medal relating to 'The Grocery Provision Oil & Italian Warehouse & Allied Trades Exhibition & Market' with depiction of sailing ship offshore, palm trees and other foliate decoration to obverse, the reverse with wreath border surrounding an engraved dedication to J Auchinoole 1897, approx 5.0 cm (diameter) in red case of issue, extremely fine
Michael Ayrton - a rare bronze medal issued in a limited edition of 50 and commissioned by the late John Paul Shepherd in 1995 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the death of Michael Ayrton (English 1921 - 1975) artist, writer, painter, printmaker, sculptor and designer, and also as a critic, broadcaster and novelist. He was a stage and costume designer, working with John Minton on the 1942 John Gielgud production of Macbeth, a book designer and illustrator for Wyndham Lewis’s The Human Age trilogy and William Golding, 10 cm x 10 cm, extremely fine - Est £100 - £150
John W Mills (English b 1933) - a uniface cast bronze art medal depicting 'Quentin Crisp's Fedora' with JWM monogram, Mills's signature engraved verso ca 2002, approx 11 cm, extremely fine - John Mills was made a fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1982, and was elected president of the society in 1986. In 1993 he became a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Karl Goetz (German) - a cast bronze medal by Karl Goetz commemorating the sinking of the SS Lusitania in 1915, obverse, a crowd of men, one reading a newspaper, inscribed (left) standing clamouring for tickets from Death at the window of a ticket office. Legend: 'GESCHÄFT ÜBER ALLES.' (Business before everything). On office, (above) 'CUNA[RD] LINIE', 'FARHKARTEN AUSGABE'; (side) 'CUNARD.' reverse, The SS Lusitania sinking by the stern, an aeroplane and armoured cars on forecastle, inscription below, legend, 'KEINE BANNWARE.' (no contraband.) Exergue: 'DER GROSSDAMPFER = LUSITANIA = DURCH EIN DEUTSCHES TAUCHBOOT VERSENKT 5 MAI 1915.', an example of the first issue wrongly dated 5 May and later withdrawn, 5.6 cm (diameter), extremely fine - Est £20 - £30
J P Legastelois (Jules-Prosper-Joseph-Marie-Edmond Legastelois, French, 1855-1931) - a bronze medal / plaque issued to honour the soldiers of World War One (WWI) scribed 'a la Gloire des Armées du Droit et de la Liberté', signed, 6.2 cm x 4.8 cm, a silver award medal signed H Dropsy, 2.7 cm (diameter) and one other medal, very fine
Eric Gill (1882-1940) - a large uniface cast bronze Medal sculpted by John Skelton, 1994, for the British Art Medal Society, bearded and bespectacled head facing right, wearing a printer's folded paper cap, bordered with the script Eric Gill Sculptor Type Designer Writer, cast by Lunt and issued in an edition of 57 only, 13.0 cm - John Skelton (1923-1999) was Eric Gill's nephew and apprenticed to him in a short time before the death of Gill, after which Skelton continued to work, the portrait being taken from Gill's self-portrait wood-cut of 1927, extremely fine - Est £150 - £250
O Roty (French) - a rare bronze plaque entitled 'La Toilette' with rear view of semi-naked female brushing her hair, verso hand mirror and sprig, 7 cm x 3.5 cm, stamped to the rim, extremely fine - an early limited edition medal issued by the Societe des Amis de la Medaille Francaise - Est £100 - £150
Gay Van Der Meer - a cast bronze medal by Geer Steyn ca 1991 issued in a limited edtion of 50, 8.7 cm (diameter), extremely fine - Steyn, an established sculptor, medallist and teacher at the Art Colleges in The Hague and Amsterdam. His BAMS medal is a tribute to Gay van der Meer, former curator of medals of the Royal Coin Collection in The Netherlands - Est £40 - £60
Marika Somogyi - a cast bronze art medal, obverse depicting head of Benjamin Britten, edition of 30, 7.9 cm x 7.2 cm, extremely fine - her works are in the permanent collections of the British Museum, Smithsonian Institute and the Art Museums of Berlin, Nuremberg, Dresden, Lisbon, Stockholm and Budapest
A cast .925 Sterling Silver medal, Battle of Waterloo 175th Anniversary Commemorative bronze medal issued in a limited edition with certificate of authenticity, Royal Mint, 6.3 cm (diameter), and a cast Bronze medal, Battle of Waterloo 175th Anniversary Commemorative bronze medal issued in a limited edition with certificate of authenticity, Royal Mint, 6.3 cm (diameter) each in presentation case, both extremely fine - Est £40 - £60
Simon Beeson (b 1961) - a cast bronze art medal entitled Linlithgow Threshold', ca 2001, edition of 30, 7.9 cm x 7.9 cm x 2.1 cm, the medal reflects the designer's interest in both the inhabited wall of castles in Scotland and Northumberland, and the two sided similarities of walls and medals, and as with previous medals it acts as a threshold between two worlds, an outside and an inside, cased, extremely fine
John Lobban - a cast bronze medal 'Homage to Collectors 1990' by John Lobban, obverse magpie holding a medal by Pisanello of John VIII of Constantinople, a squirrel burying Chadwick's Diamond medal, reverse a collector chasing medals with a butterfly net, 10.0 cm, only 85 medals issued, extremely fine - Est £60 - £80
Kevin Coates, 1987 - a rare cast bronze 'James Monahan Medal' only 27 issued plus those awarded, 5.0 cm x 5.2 cm - Coates is a tutor of Silversmithing and Jewellery at the Royal College of Art and this complex medal alludes to many aspects of the life of James Monahan, for many years director of the Royal Ballet School. A version of the medal is presented annually at the R.B.S. as a prize for choreography
J Lecroat (Belgian) - a rectangular cast bronze plaquette, rounded at the top entitled 'Hygieia' issued by Societe Hollando-Belge des Amis de la Medaille ca 1913, obverse depicting Hygieia on tablet, her hair garlanded with fruit, reverse naked standing figure of the Goddess holding aloft a bowl of overflowing with fruit, a sleeping child to her right, approx 6.4 cm x 7.1 cm, extremely fine with a few spots of discolouration - Est £60 - £80
Irene Gunston (Wales b 1960) - a cast bronze Art Medal entitled 'Undisturbed Night' by Irene Gunston, ca 1988, 9.0 cm (diameter), extremely fine - Irene Gunston is a sculptor, metal founder, draughtsman, and educator who lived and worked in London 1981-2014, and is now living and working in Carmarthenshire
Natalya Domovitskikh - a modern cast bronze medal entitled 'Chernobel' ca 1995, obverse scribed 'Chernobil', reverse with depiction of a seated figure surrounded by bats, the border scribed 'el sueno de la razon produce monstruos' (the sleep of reason produces monsters), edition of 40, unsigned, 11.7 cm (diameter) extremely fine
Heinrich Kautsch (1859-1943) - a bronze plaque obverse Charles Delagrave, bust facing left, signed H Kautsch to right, reverse scribed HOC. EST. MIHI. LABORI. La Science (?) assise et appuyée sur un globe accompagnée de la Renommée, avec une presse d'imprimerie ca 1910, 6.5 cm x 7.5 cm, extremely fine - Est £80 - £120
Sleeping Tablet by Carole Dodds ca 2000 - a miniature cast verdigris bronze sculpture in the form of a pillow, obverse with a naive depiction of an infant resting and reverse with mirrored image of words from the 18th century children's bedtime prayer, 'Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep' 5.7 cm x 7.3 cm x 2.0 cm, extremely fine
The Spanish Armada 400th Anniversary 1588-1988 - a Silver commemorative medal cast in .925 sterling silver issued in a limited edition with certificate of authenticity, 6.3 cm (diameter) and a Bronze commemorative medal cast by the Royal Mint issued in a limited edition with certificates of authenticity, 6.3 cm (diameter) in presentation cases, both extremely fine - Est £40 - £60
Jenny Burgess (British) - a cast bronze medal inspired by the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical after TS Eliot's book, a two-part medal lidded dustbin which reveals a bunch of singing mewing cats, a giant playground for cats, 8.2 cm (diameter) issued in a limited edition of 200. Medal designed while Burgess (now in NZ) was still an undergraduate at Central St. Martins School of Art & Design, 1994, Royal Mint / RCA competition winner, cast by the Royal Mint - Est £60 - £100
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