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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, TURKEY, the Ottoman Empire and the wars against them, 1958, The Completion of the Restoration of the Rumeli Hisari Castle, Bronze Medal, bust of Mehmed II, The Conquerer (1430-1451-1481), to right, rev panorama of hillside castle, 78mm. Extremely fine. The great fortress of Rumeli Hisar was built by Mehmet II in 1452, to face the earlier Anadolu Hirasi across the Bosphorus. The obverse taken from Bertoldi di Giovanni’s medal, though the image reversed.
![COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Music–related, Lucienne Bréval (1869-1935) - [Berthe Agnes Liserte Schilling], French (Swiss born) sop](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1806/2672415/2381-2-1806_468x382.jpg)
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Music–related, Lucienne Bréval (1869-1935) - [Berthe Agnes Liserte Schilling], French (Swiss born) soprano and opera singer, uniface Bronze Portrait Plaquette, 1911, by E Blin, bust right, in loose gown and veil, rectangular with arched top, 77mm x 56mm. Softly sculpted, very fine. Lucienne Bréval is remembered for her role as Brunhilde in Wagner’s “Walkyrie” in Paris in 1893, and for singing at the Metropolitan Opera (1900-1902)
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Music–related, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Bohemian/Austrian composer and conductor, large Bronze Memorial Medal, 1911, by BE, head left, rev Lucifer burning in flames, 125mm. Very fine. Mahler completed symphonies as well as the song cycles “Songs of a Wayfarer” and “Songs on the Death of Children”
![COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Music–related, Felix Mottl (1856-1911), Austrian [Viennese] conductor, aged 33, Bronze Portrait Plaque](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1806/2672415/2386-2-1806_468x382.jpg)
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Music–related, Felix Mottl (1856-1911), Austrian [Viennese] conductor, aged 33, Bronze Portrait Plaque, 1889, by Anton Scharff, bust right, emblems of music around, 137mm x 116mm. Manufactured as an electrotype, very fine and rare. Mottl, best known for conducting the operas of Wagner
![COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Music–related, Auguste-Mathieu Panseron, (1795 [or 1796] –1859), French composer and tenor, uniface ca](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1806/2672415/2387-2-1806_468x382.jpg)
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Music–related, Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868), Italian composer, uniface bronze portrait medallion, c.1860’s, unsigned, head right, name above, 107mm. Very fine. A cast taken from the Bois Durci medallion, though without the ‘wing’ signature. Rossini composed more than 30 operas, including Il barbiere di Siviglia and Guillaume Tell
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, USA and American Interest Medals, Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876, Copper Medal, awarded by the Commission, by H Mitchell, Liberty seated with emblems of art, trade and industry, 76mm; The International Exposition of safety Devices, New York, 1907, bronze plaquette, by C C Goodman, 76mm x 54mm. First extremely fine, second very fine. (2)
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art and Industry, a large Bronze Medal, by O Roty, issued by the Ministère de l’Instruction Publique et des Beaux-Arts, c.1884, Vulcan, at his anvil, showing his work on a shield to Minerva, rev tablet within wreath, etc, 80mm (Roty Compagnonnage p.88; CGMP p.360; BDM V, 230). Nearly extremely fine with ‘chocolate’ patination. Executed while Roty was in Rome
![COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Nouveau, Helen [of Troy], and Eros, Bronze Plaquette, by René Grégoire (1871-1945), the beautiful](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1806/2672415/2306-2-1806_468x382.jpg)
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Nouveau, Helen [of Troy], and Eros, Bronze Plaquette, by René Grégoire (1871-1945), the beautiful Helen stands amidst a ruined city, a dead youth at her feet, rev Youthful Eros, naked on a plinth, standing within a lush Italianate garden, 91mm x 60mm. Extremely fine. Helen is depicted in a diaphonous Egyptian style whilst the architecture around is both Egyptian and Syrian
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Professor Jacques-Arsène d’Arsonval (1851-1940), large complimentary Bronze Medal, “Son Jubilé”, 1933, by Paul-Marcel Damann (1855-1939), bust of d’Arsonval left, rev naked female slays monstrous snakes, 118mm. Extremely fine, rare. Arsonval, physicist and physician, worked under Claude Bernard and C E Brown-Séquard (whom he succeeded in 1897 at the Collège de France) and was professor at the Sorbonne from 1894 to 1932. He gave his name to the D'Arsonval galvanometer, and as a pioneer in electrotherapy, he studied the medical application of high-frequency currents. He was also involved in the industrial application of electricity. Whilst the obverse of the medal is completely traditional, the reverse is a powerful Art Deco image and one of Damann’s most memorable works.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Lifesaving, The Andrew Carnegie Medal for France, founded 1909, awarded to R le Bris, 1932, the Bronze Plaquette, by Louis Dejeau, bust of Carnegie right, FONDATION CARNEGIE 1909 / LIBÉRALITÉ D’UN CITOYEN AMÉRICAIN POUR RÉCOMPENSER LES ACTES DE COURAGE ACCOMPLIS EN FRANCE, rev a diaphonous Victory places a wreath on the head of a naked hero, 81mm x 54mm, in (somewhat distressed) fitted case of issue. Extremely fine.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, TURKEY, the Ottoman Empire and the wars against them, c.1480, Mehmet II, Sultan of Turkey (1430-1451-1481), Cast Bronze Medal, by Bertoldo di Giovanni, bust left wearing turban, a medal on a ribbon around his neck, MAVMhET … IMPERAT, rev triumphal car pulled by horses, lead by Mars, in which the Sultan, as a warrior, holds three naked women with a rope, Sea God and Earth Godess below, 91mm, a late cast, probably early 19th century (Hill, Corpus 911; Kress 248; Arm I, 76). Very fine and a good clear portrait.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, TURKEY, the Ottoman Empire and the wars against them, . 1480, Britain, John Kendal [or Quendal], Turcopolier (Colonel General of Infantry) of the Order of St John, The Siege of Rhodes by the Turks, cast Bronze Portrait Medal, 1480, of Italian manufacture, bust right with long hair, rev shield of arms, TEMPORE. OBSIDIONIS. TVRCHORVM. MCCCCLXXX, 55mm (MI 17/3; Hill 934; Furse p.379). A somewhat worn but original cast with old but later gilding applied, reverse about fine, obverse better, very rare. John Kendal was Turcopolier at the time of the siege of Rhodes by the Turks. The post was annexed to that of Grand Bailiff of England and he was also Prior of the Order of St John in London and Grand Master. As such the task of recruiting for troops, especially in Ireland, to fight the Turks fell to him.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, TURKEY, the Ottoman Empire and the wars against them, c.1533, Ottoman Empire, Khair ed-Din (c.1483-1546), Greek born Turkish corsair, better known as Barbarossa [Redbeard], cast Bronze Portrait Medal, by Ludwig Neufahrer (died 1563), in Vienna, bust of Barbarossa right, wearing a turban and coat, BARBA ROSSA. NE, rev a three line inscription in (mal-formed) Arabic, KHAIR ED-DIN / PASHA JAZA’IR SULTAN, 27mm (Habich I, 1403; Löbebecke 409; Lanna 1003; Voltolina 356; Serenissma 122; Baldwins Auction 35, lot 2469, silver). Very fine and rare. Barbarossa and his brother Aruj, captured Algiers from the Spanish (1518), and placed Algeria under Turkish rule. He was appointed Governor in 1519 when Selim I bestowed on him the title Pasha. He then conquered the rest of the Barbary States. In 1533 he was appointed Kapudan Pasha (admiral of the Turkish fleet) and between then and 1544, he twice defeated the Genoese Admiral, Andrea Doria.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, TURKEY, the Ottoman Empire and the wars against them, 1681, France, Louis XIV, Defeat of the Corsairs of Tripoli at Chio, Bronze Medal, by J Mauger, bust of Louis XIV right with flowing hair, rev Victory stands, her foot resting on the turban of a suppliant Turk, his shield to her other side, a distant view of the town and harbour of Chio, DE PIRATIS TVRCA SPECTANTE, 41mm (Divo 190; MH 80; Sandwich HH 26). Very fine.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, TURKEY, the Ottoman Empire and the wars against them, 1686, Charles V (Leopold-Nicholas-Sixte, 1643-1690), Duke of Lorraine and Bar (Barrois), the Expulsion of the Turks from Hungry, large baroque Bronze Medal, by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi (1656-1740), bust of the Duke right, hair long and falling over shoulders, wearing armoured breast-plate and Badge of the Golden Fleece, dated below truncation, rev the Duke as a Roman general, reaches over the figure of religion to attack the figure of Turkey, amidst a pile of military trophies, one shield marked LORENA, behind a temple with the legend on the portico, CHRISTO VLTORI, signed M.S. below, 85mm (V&T 45; Börner 1494A). Very fine and very rare. Charles was given command of a regiment by his brother-in-law, the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, having distinguished himself at the battle of Saint Gotthard. He was promoted to the rank of Field Marshal in 1675. In 1683, he opposed the Turkish advance on Vienna. He marched againt them into into Hungary, captured Neuhäusel and Buda, then in 1687 finally defeated them with his decisive victory at the Battle of Mohacs.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, TURKEY, the Ottoman Empire and the wars against them, 1717, House of Habsburg, Nuremburg, The Cessation of Hostilites with Turkey and France, the “so-called” Saulthaler, Bronze Medal, by Philipp Heinrich Müller, the conversion of St Paul, he as an equestrian knight, chrongrammatic legend, rev legend in seven lines, HÖRE NACHWELT …. ZV DER TVRKEN SCHVZ BEKRIEGT, plain edge, 44mm (Mont 1493; Julius 1338; Erl 2713; Forster 802; BDM IV, 204). Very fine.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, TURKEY, the Ottoman Empire and the wars against them, 1791, Germany, Asmi Achmet, Turkish Ambassador to the Court of Friedrich Wilhelm II at Berlin, Bronze Portrait Medal, unsigned, bust left wearing turban, rev legend and date in seven lines, ZUM ANDENCKEN BEY …, 31mm (FuS 4554, var; Voltolina 1738; Serenissima III, 167, var). Very fine, with little actual wear.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, TURKEY, the Ottoman Empire and the wars against them, 1814, Austria/Russia/Prussia, Tribute to the Allies, triple portrait Bronze Cliché, by Leopold Heuberger, conjoined and uniformed busts right of Franz I, Alexander I, and Franz Wilhem III, 65mm (BDM VII, 447). Perhaps once gilt, very fine and rare. Alexander I visited Vienna in 1814. This piece probably intended for use as a box lid
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, TURKEY, the Ottoman Empire and the wars against them, 1878, Serbia, Milan Obrenovic IV (1854-1901, King 1882-1889), as Prince, The End of the Turkish War, small Bronze Medal, standing figure of Serbia holding wreath, her foot on Turkish trophies, rev MO monogram of Prince Milan, within crowned wreath, 32mm, integral suspension loop (Wurz 8404). Extremely fine, rare. At the end of the War the Turks acknowledged the independence of Prince Milan.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, TURKEY, the Ottoman Empire and the wars against them, 1913, Greece, George I (1863-1913), The Balkan Wars, small Bronze Medal, 1913, by George Jacobides, uniformed bust of George I left, rev crowned bust of the Emperor Basil II left, 30mm, integral suspension ring. Very fine. During the period of the Balkan Wars (1912-13) there was much comparison between the king and the Emperor Basil [Vasilios] II, Bulgaroctonus, the Bulgar-slayer, as for intance, in Kostis Palamas' epic poem The King's Flute.
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BRITISH COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Historical Medals By Subject, Dr Ludwig Mond (1839-1909), FRS, Chemist, Industrialist and Art Collector, 70th Birthday, large hollow (but filled) Bronze Tribute Medal, 1908/9, by Edouard Lanteri, bust left in large profile, wearing suit, rev a list of his academic appointments and society memberships, 114mm, in green velvet-lined octagonal leather case of issue (BHM 3974, R3; Eimer 1911). Virtually as made, extremely rare. The Mond Nickel Company, to which he gave his name, merged with INCO [The International Nickel Company of Canada], in 1928. Edouard Lanteri (1848-1917), for many years Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art. The medal is made in two halves united at the rim, but it is not clear whether the impressions for each side are cast bronze or electrotypes. It is a handsome and rare tribute medal to Mond who died in December 1909, 9 months after his 70th birthday.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, France, Louis XIV (1638-1643-1715), Porte de Sète, cast Bronze Medal, unsigned, 1666, bust of the King right, PACEM TERRIS INDIXIT ET VNDIS, bird’s eye view of the harbour area (BMC [Jones] 344; TN III, pl 2, 1). Seemingly cast from a pierced specimen, nearly very fine. The Porte de Sète was built to serve the Lanquedoc Canal. Jones records examples of the medal in gold and pewter in Paris and in silver at the British Museum, but none in bronze.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, France, The Kings of France, c.1830’s, The Complete Set of 72 Bronze Medals, contained in their four original trays within a green-covered folio-sized box-type container; together with the descriptive and dedicated book*; the medals date from Pharamond (420) to Louis Phillipe (1830), each with portrait obverse, often crowned, and including “Republique Francaise” [Convention – Directoire – Consulat (1792-1799) and Napoleon, by Armand Auguste Caqué, the medals signed, and dated on truncations, each 51mm. The medals somewhat ‘dusty’, but otherwise extremely fine, the case in good order, the whole extremely rare as a complete set. (lot) M. Théodore Toussenel, Précis Chronologique de L’Histoire de France, pour servir de text explicatif aux Planches Gravées sur acier par le procédé Collas d’apres La Collection des Médailles Historiques des Rois de France, Paris, 1845, 9pp, 3 double collotype plates each of 18 medals ( lacking last plate of medals, ie. 55-72), cloth bound title in gilt, “A MONSIUER LE COMTE DE CAMBACÉRÈS – SOUVERAINS DE LA FRANCE – OEVRE TRÈS RARE, QUI N’A QU’UNE SEULE EDITION EN 1845, EPUISÉE AUJOUD’HUI FOURNIE A TOUS LES SOUVERAINS D’EUROPE”. Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, Duke of Parma (1753-1824), lawyer and statesman, and the author of the Code Napoleon (which today still forms the basis of French law). Cambacérès was homosexual, and is widely, but not altogether accurately, given credit for decriminalising homosexuality in France.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, France, Motoring, Menton, Silvered Bronze and Enamel Plaque, by Drago of Paris and Nice, issued by the Comité des fêtes et des sports for the 1939 “Tournoi auto du fruit d’or”, enamelled panorama between shields, against background of fruiting lemons, 45mm x 85mm, in case of issue. Smallest chip to central enamel, otherwise as issued and highly decorative. Sold with photograph of the two (unknown and over-dressed) lady winners, holding a basket of ‘fruit d’or’, and standing alongside their bedecked car.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, France, Medals of the Revolution of 1848 and its aftermath, Triumph of Liberty, oval silver cliché, Liberty stands by fasces, music and scull, 32mm x 39mm; together with a group of smaller medals and medalets (16), Death of the Duc d’Orleans, 1842, 39mm, stained; others mostly 1848, “200,000 Proletaires Contre Les Aristoctaes de Paris”, 37mm; 1er Vendémaire, An LVII/1848, 35mm; Empress Eugenie / Ste Eugenie, 33mm; Courage et Probité (2, copper and cast bronze), 37mm; “Au People de Paris / Le Peuple de Lyon”, 37mm; Démocrates Socialistes, 33mm; “Un Pauvre Aueugle”, 28mm; Assemblée Nationale, 26mm; lead (3), Henry V, 34mm, others (2) smaller; crude cast lead (3), one octagonal. The last three fair to fine, others very fine and better and a fascinating group. (18)
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Germany, Music, Franz Liszt (1811-1886), The Centenary of his birth, large Bronze Medal, 1911, by Karl Goetz, bust of the composer right, hair to his shoulders, rev Christ crucified, cherubs play violin and cello to either side, DEM SCHÖPFER DES GROSSEN ORATORIVM, 90mm (Keinast 29; Niggl 1118). Extremely fine and rare.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Germany, Blohm & Voss, Shipbuilders and Engineering Works, 50th Anniversary, Bronze Plaquette, 1927, by ARL, the launching ceremony looking towards the bow of a ship in covered dock, busts of Blohm and Voss below, 165mm x 88mm. An imaginative and somewhat Art-Deco design, extremely fine. The company was founded on April 5, 1877 by Hermann Blohm and Ernst Voss on the island of Kuhwerder, and by 1927 had completed 429 vesels. They manufactured aircraft during World War II and are now, as Blohm & Voss Repair GmbH, are a part of the Thyssen Krupp group.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Hong Kong, Edward VII, Coronation Celebrations, 1902, Governor Sir Henry Blake’s Bronze Medal, by Edmonds, conjoined busts of the King and Queen Alexandra right, rev British man o’war and Chinese junk before mountains, 38mm, suspension loop and ring. Very fine. The much decorated Sir Henry Arthur Blake (1840-1918), was born in Limerick. Governor of Hong Kong, 1898-1903, his other governorships included the Bahamas, Newfoundland, Queensland and Jamaica, then after Hong Kong, Ceylon.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, India and related medals, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Bengali novelist, poet, novelist, educator, and an early advocate of Independence for India, modern French Bronze ‘Art’ Medal, 1964, by Thérèse Dufresne, his face three-quarters left, rev Tagore in the centre of a small central group of figures, 90mm. Extremely fine. From an edition of 400. Rabindranath Tagore, who was born in Calcutta to a wealthy background, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Although knighted two years later, he surrendered it in 1919 as a protest against the Massacre of Amritsar, where British troops killed some 400 Indian demonstrators. Tagore had an enormous influence over Gandhi and the other founders of modern India.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Morocco [and France], Marshal Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey (1854-1934), “The Pacification of Morocco”, Bronze Medal, 1925, on his retirement from office, by Henry Dropsy, bust right in uniform, rev Lyautey meets Moroccan leaders under tented canopy, 68mm. Very fine. Morocco became a French Protectorate in 1912, under the rule of General (later Marshal) Lyautey who remained in office until 1925, with a brief interruption in 1916-17, when he was French war minister.
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BRITISH COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Historical Medals, The “WH Medal”, Prize for Industry, Courtesy and Integrity, Silver, 1839, by Thomas Halliday, images of the Theatre at Athens, with Spartans and Athenians, below left, Socrates in prison, and right, Demosthenes on a rocky shore, rev five-line inscription, a small oval in the lower centre, 57mm, in case. Good extremely fine, lightly toned and extremely rare in silver. It is not known if the medal was ever awarded in silver, it is more usually found in bronze with the recipient’s a number stamped within the oval on the reverse, and it was issued with a booklet extolling the virtues of Industry, Courtesy and Integrity. It is from the booklet that the date of issue is known.
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BRITISH COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Historical Medals of Naval Interest, Battle of Jutland, Bronze Medal, 1916, by A Bertram Pegram and Spink, British lion tramples the German eagle, rev Victory stands on dolphin, names of Jellicoe and Beatty to either side, 76.5mm (BHM 4127; MH p.493h). Matt surface, virtually as struck.
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BRITISH COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Historical Medals, The Franco-British Exhibition, London, Gilt-bronze Medal, 1908, by F Bowcher, seated figures of Britannia and Marianne, standing Fame behind, rev a Fame by exhibition buildings, a tablet (and space below) engraved, “G Thillaye Agent Général de la Caisse d’Epargne et de Prévoyance de Paris – Diplome d’Honneur”, 64mm (BHM 3960, listed only as 51mm or 32mm), extremely fine; with a French medal for the French and City of London Commercial Associations, by L Coudray, 1903, Britannia and Marianne by Channel, rev legend and (un-named) tablet, 54mm, about very fine; National Federation of Fruit and Potato Trades, bronze medal, by G Rayner Hoff, 1921, awarded 1947 (Toye & Co), 57mm, very fine and with a strong obverse design. (3) G Rayner Hoff, ARCA, played an important role in the development of Australian sculpture and, in 1927, was only the fourth sculptor to win the Wynne Prize (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia). He was commissioned to sculpt the George V memorial at Canberra, but died in 1937 before it was completed (in fact the second sculptor John E Moorfield also died before it was completed and the War gave rise to further delays. It was finally unveiled in 1953).
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BRITISH COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Historical Medals, Field-Marshal Montgomery (1887-1976), Bronze Medal, 1946, by P Turin, bust three-quarters left, wearing cap, rev arms, 67mm (BHM 4414); a ‘horse brass’ of “Our Monty”, 79mm; France, General Leclerc (1902-1947), Bronze Medal, 1947, by R Delamarre, bust left in kepi, rev his war-time achievements listed, 68mm; Victory in Normany 1944, Bronze Medal, ancient archer in quadriga, rev sword laid across town names, 68mm; USA, General George S Patton (1885-1945), Bronze Tribute Medal, 1945, from Ettelbruck (Luxemburg), by J Lefevre, helmeted head right, rev arms and date, MERCI, 70mm. All but second extremely fine. (5) Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hautecloque took the nom de guerre of Jacques Philippe Leclerc on joining General de Gaulle in London, to protect his family living in Vichy France. He led the 2nd French Armored Division in the race to Paris and on the 25th August, 1944, he, together with Colonel Rol, received the surrender of General Choltitz. General Geroge Smith Patton, “Old Blood and Guts”, died in Luxemburg in December 1945 and is buried in the American War Cemetary at Hamm. In 1995 the General Patton Memorial Museum was opened in Ettelbruck.
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BRITISH COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Historical Medals, Charles II, Restoration 1660, Dutch cast Bronze Medal, of crude workmanship, bust three-quarters left, hair long, with cravat and Garter george on ribbon, CAROL. II. CON. V. ENG, rev three regal crowns, VER.L. SCHOL. et FRANRY. [Ireland, Scotland & France], 45mm (MI 455/43). Fair to fine, excessively rare. MI lists the medal from an example in the British Museum, refering to it as “Unique”
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RUSSIAN Commemorative MEDALS, France/Russia, The Pont Alexandre III, the laying of the foundation stone by Nicholas II and Alexandra, Silvered-bronze Medal, 1900, by Daniel Dupuis, figures of France, Russia and Peace, head of Alexander III above, rev reclining River godess and child, legend below, 70mm. Good very fine. The ceremony undertaken by Nicholas II and the naming of the bridge in honour of his father, was a part of the official functions for the Universal Exposition in Paris.
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Great Britain/England, British BRONZE AND COPPER COINS, Victoria, Third-Farthing, 1844, struck on a thin flan, 0.89g, RE for REG, young head left, date below, VICTORIA DEI GRATIA, toothed border both sides, rev Britannia helmeted seated right with shield and trident, emblems in exergue, BRITANNIAR: RE FID: DEF: (Peck 1607, and note 2; S 3952). Toned, prooflike, good extremely fine and rare.
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Great Britain/England, British BRONZE AND COPPER COINS, Victoria, Third-Farthing, 1844, struck on a thick flan, 1.59g, RE for REG, young head left, date below, VICTORIA DEI GRATIA, toothed border both sides, rev Britannia helmeted seated right with shield and trident, emblems in exergue, BRITANNIAR: RE FID: DEF: (Peck 1607; S 3952). Toned, with streak of lustre on reverse, as struck and rare.
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Great Britain/England, British BRONZE AND COPPER COINS, Victoria, Third-Farthing, 1844, struck on a thick flan, 1.58g, RE for REG, young head left, date below, VICTORIA DEI GRATIA, toothed border both sides, rev Britannia helmeted seated right with shield and trident, emblems in exergue, BRITANNIAR: RE FID: DEF: (Peck 1607; S 3952). With considerable lustre, as struck, prooflike, streaky tone and rare.
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Great Britain/England, British BRONZE AND COPPER COINS, Victoria (1837-1901), Third-Farthings (5), 1866, 1868, 1876, 1878, 1881, laureate head left, VICTORIA D.G. BRITT. REG. F.D., toothed border both sides, rev ONE THIRD FARTHING in two lines, crown above, date below, emblems at bottom, within oak wreath (Peck 1926, 1928, 1932, 1933, 1934; S 3960). Good extremely fine or better, all with lustre. (5)
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Great Britain/England, British BRONZE AND COPPER COINS, Victoria, Bronze Proof Third-Farthing, 1866, laureate head left, VICTORIA D.G. BRITT. REG. F.D., toothed border both sides, rev ONE THIRD FARTHING in two lines, crown above, date below, emblems at bottom, within oak wreath (Peck 1927; S 3960). Mint state and extremely rare.
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Great Britain/England, British BRONZE AND COPPER COINS, Victoria, Bronze Proof Third-Farthing, 1868, laureate head left, VICTORIA D.G. BRITT. REG. F.D., toothed border both sides, rev ONE THIRD FARTHING in two lines, crown above, date below, emblems at bottom, within oak wreath (Peck 1929; S 3960). Mint state and extremely rare.
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Great Britain/England, British BRONZE AND COPPER COINS, Victoria (1837-1901), Quarter-Farthings (4), 1839, 1851, 1852, 1853, young head left, VICTORIA D:G: BRITANNIA: REGINA F:D:, toothed border both sides, rev QUARTER FARTHING in two lines, crown above, date below, emblems at bottom (Peck 1608, 1609, 1610, 1612; S 3953). Most with lustre, good extremely fine or better. (4)
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Great Britain/England, British BRONZE AND COPPER COINS, Victoria, Proof Quarter-Farthing, 1868, struck in copper-nickel, young head left, VICTORIA D:G: BRITANNIA: REGINA F:D: toothed border both sides, rev QUARTER FARTHING in two lines, crown above, date below, emblems at bottom (Peck 1615; S 3953). Practically as struck and very rare.
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Great Britain/England, British BRONZE AND COPPER COINS, George VI (1936-1952), Brass Threepences (11), 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1952; Elizabeth II (1952- ), Brass Threepences (5), 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1960 (S 4112, 4113, 4152, 4153). Very fine to uncirculated. (16)
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Great Britain/England, British BRONZE AND COPPER COINS, Charles II, Tin Farthing, 1685, laureate and cuirassed bust left, toothed border both sides, CAROLVS.A. CAROLO., rev Britannia seated left, with shield, spear and spray of leaves, plain exergue, BRITAN NIA., edge inscribed in raised letters, NVMMORVM*FAMVLVS*1685* (Peck 538; S 3395). Poor to fair.
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Great Britain/England, British BRONZE AND COPPER COINS, James II (1685-1688), Tin Farthing, 1684, copper plug at centre, laureate and cuirassed bust right, toothed border both sides, IACOBVS. SECVNDVS, rev inverted die axis, Britannia seated left, with shield, spear and spray of leaves, plain exergue, BRITAN NIA., edge inscribed in raised letters, NVMMORVM* FAMVLVS 1684* (Peck 545; S 3420). Fair to fine and of the highest rarity.
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Great Britain/England, British BRONZE AND COPPER COINS, James II, Tin Farthing, 1685, laureate and cuirassed bust right, toothed border both sides, IACOBVS. SECVNDVS, rev Britannia seated left, with shield, spear and spray of leaves, plain exergue, BRITAN NIA., edge inscribed in raised letters, NVMMORVM*FAMVLVS*1685* (Peck 547; S 3420). Fair to fine and rare.
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Great Britain/England, British BRONZE AND COPPER COINS, James II, Tin Farthing, 1687, laureate and draped bust right, toothed border both sides, IACOBVS. SECVNDVS, rev Britannia seated left, with shield, spear and spray of leaves, plain exergue, BRITAN NIA., edge inscribed in raised letters, NVMMORVM*FAMVLVS*1687* (Peck 558; S 3421). Patina of light corrosion, flan crack, very fine for issue and of the highest rairty.
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Great Britain/England, British BRONZE AND COPPER COINS, William and Mary (1688-1694), Tin Farthing, 1689, copper plug at centre, first conjoined laureate and draped busts right, toothed border both sides, GVLIELMVS. ET.MARIA, rev inverted die axis, Britannia seated left, with shield, spear and spray of leaves, date in exergue, BRITAN NIA*, edge inscribed in raised letters, NVMMORVM*FAMVLVS*1689* (Peck 563; S 3450). Some corrosion, fair to fine and extremely rare.
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Great Britain/England, British BRONZE AND COPPER COINS, William and Mary, Farthing, 1689, struck in copper on a broader flan 24mm, 5.53g, first conjoined laureate and draped busts right, toothed border both sides, GVLIELMVS. ET.MARIA, rev inverted die axis, Britannia seated left, with shield, spear and spray of leaves, date in exergue, BRITAN NIA*, edge plain (Peck 564; S 3450). Small rim cut, dig on reverse, good fine and of the highest rarity.
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