COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, GREECE Crete, George I (1845-1863-1913), The Continuing Revolution against the Turks and the Destruction of the Monastery at Arkadi, Silver Medal, 1866-1867-1868, a Phoenix reborn amidst the flames, ?? ??? ????????? ??????????? [Reborn From My Ashes], rev women and children huddle together as the Abbot sets fire to the Monastery, ???????? ???? [Cretan War] 1866-67-68, 61mm (cf Spink auction no.5, 17 May 1979, lot 381, in white metal). Choice extremely fine and excessively rare in silver. Very little is known about the medal, where it was struck and who the medallist and manufacturers were. The image appears to be taken from a painting now displayed at the monastery. The cataloguers are aware of only two other specimens in silver (both in private collections). There was wide support throughout Europe and the United States for Crete and against the Turks. Supplies were sent to the island in a ship re-named Arkadi, and the medal may have been a fund raising device. The monastery at Arkadi, high in the mountains southeast of Rethymnon, had become a fortress that the Turks were determined to destroy. By the 7 November 1866, there were 964 people inside, of whom only 325 were men and of these only 250 were trained. The rest were women and children, refugees from villages destroyed by the Turks. Ioannis Dimakopoulos from Gortyna was garrison commander. When total destruction seemed inevitable the hegumen (Abbot), Gabriel Marinakis, rather than surrender and face the horrors of the Turks, set fire to huge supply of war materials including gunpowder stored in the monastery’s magazine. Most of the 964 Christians were killed outright in the resulting explosion, 114 were taken prisoner, and a mere three or four escaped. But it is said that 1500 Turks also perished in the explosion. The Turkish occupation would end soon after.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, GREECE Crete, Prince George of Greece and Denmark (1869-1957), High Commissioner of Crete (1898-1906), First International Exposition, Kania (Chania), Silver Award Medal, 1900, bemedalled and facing bust of Prince George, rev legend and date, oak and olive wreath, 60mm. Good extremely fine, toned, rare in silver.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, GREECE George I (1845-1863-1913), The Bank of Greece, 60th Anniversary, 1841-1901, Bronze Medal, 1902, conjoined busts of the first four Presidents of the Bank, Stavros, Renieris, Kalligas and Streit, rev façade of the Bank, radiant sky from Royal arms, 54.5mm. Extremely fine.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, GREECE George I (1845-1863-1913), Nikolaos Votsis (1877-1931), later Rear Admiral, the Balkan Wars, Bronze Portrait Medal, 1912, struck in Paris, uniformed and bemedalled bust left, rev date, 18-19 October 1912, within wreath, 57.5mm. Pale bronze, extremely fine. Nikolaos Votsis was a celebrated figure in the Balkan Wars. The dates on the medal commemorate the Treaty of Lausanne on the 18 October and the invasion of Western Turkey by the Balkan League on the 19 October. He is best remembered for the sinking of the Turkish ship Feth-i Bülend in the harbour at Thessaloniki (where his bust still stands), on 31 October 1912.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, GREECE George II (1890-1947, King 1922-1924, 1935-1947), Crown Prince Paul (1901-1947-1964), Marriage to Princess Frederica of Hanover, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1938, Bronze Medal, by B Phalireas, 1938, conjoined busts left, he bemedalled in uniform, rev crown above two shields of arms, 56mm. Extremely fine.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, ITALY Francesco I Sforza (1401-1466), 4th Duke of Milan, Lead Memorial Medal (1466), by Sperandio da Mantova (c.1425-1504), bust three-quarters right, FRANCISCVS SFORTIA VICE COMES DVX MEDIOLANI QVARTVS, rev façade of a Renaissance building, OPVS SPERANDEI, 90mm (Hill, Corpus 361; Pollard [2007] 94; Arm I, 74, 42). An original cast of a rare medal, but in well-worn condition, knocks to high spots and pierced at 12 o’clock and 6 o’clock. The portrait seems to be based on a painted portrait (now lost), whilst the reverse is believed to be the design for a memorial chapel by the Florentine architect and sculptor, Antonio di Pietro Averlino (c.1400-c.1469). His most famous project was the bronze doors for the old St Peter’s Basilica, completed in 1445. More relevant to the medal is his design for Sforzinda, the (unbuilt) plan for the first ideal city of the Renaissance.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, ITALY Costanzo Sforza (1447-1483), Lord of Pesaro, cast Bronze Medal, 1475, by Gianfrancesco Enzola (active 1455-1478), bust of Costanzo in armour to left, CONSTANTIVS SFORTIA DE ARAGONIA …, rev the castle at Pesaro with its several towers, INEXPVGNABILE CASTELLVM … (Hill, Corpus 294; Pollard [2007] 140; Kress 97). A later cast, good very fine.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, ITALY Alexander VII (1599-1655-1667), Fabio Chigi, large cast Bronze Medal, 1659, by Gioacchino Francesco Travani, with the reverse design by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, bearded bust left wearing robes and cap, ALEXANDER VII. P.M. PIVS. IVST. OPT. SENN. PATR. GENTE. CHISIVS. MDCLIX, rev Androcles in the Circus Maximus, holding shield and with sword raised, the lion crouched at his feet, a cheering crowd behind, MVNIFICO. PRINCIPI. DOMINICVS. IACOBATIVS., in scroll below ET. FERA. MEMOR. BENEFICII., 98mm (Molinari 96; Varriano 79; Venuti XX, Miselli 567; Vannel-Toderi 504; Börner 1177; Lincoln 1192; Ciechanowiecki 255; Clifford (Spink/Christie, 21 May 1996), lot 186). A superb original cast with light patination, extremely fine. The medal is said to commemorate the end of the plague in Rome and was commissioned by Domenico Jacobacci. Clifford states the medal to be “probably the finest and most ambitious example of Italian medallic art of the seventeenth century”. The involvement of Bernini is well documented; it was his idea to use the lion as a symbol of remembrance (the lion recognises the gladiator who had once pulled a thorn from its foot). A photocopy letter from Graham Pollard at the Fitzwilliam Museum (3 April 1987), states, “Your superb Alexander VII … is of comparable quality to the museum example.”
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, ITALY Antonio Magliabechi (1633-1714), Grandducal Librarian to Cosimo III de’ Medici, struck Copper Medal, undated, by Maria Antonio di Gennaro (active 1702 to his death in 1744), bust right, his hair long and unkempt, rev Magliabechi seated in garden, reading beneath a tree, beyond him a beggar, SCIRE NOSTRVM REMINISCI, 45mm (BDM II, 240, illustrated; V&T, Bargello III, 775; Johnson 311; Clifford 284; Hall Collection (Baldwin’s Auction 64, 4 May 2010), lot 435). About extremely fine.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, ITALY Vatican, Pope Francis (1936-2013- ), Bronz Annual Medal, Year 1, by Mariangela Crisciotti, facing bust of Pope, rev Christ and the collector of taxes, legend around with error spelling LESVS for IESVS, 44mm, numbered on edge 2063/4000, in case and box of issue with certificate; another, 2424/4000, with corrected legend. Both mint state. (2) The medal was issued in October 2013 and almost immediately recalled. It is not known how many of the original edition of 4000 specimens showing the error survived.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, MALTA Giovanni Battista Ceschi a Santa Croce (1827-1905), Appointed Grand Master, Copper Medal, 1879, crowned arms both sides, 41mm. Good very fine. The Medal commemorates the approval given by Pope Leo XIII for the revival of the position of Grand Master.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, NETHERLANDS William II (1626-1647-1650), Prince of Orange and Stadtholder, Death, engraved Silver Medal, 1650, unsigned, crowned shield of arms of Amsterdam, with lion supporters, “Gesegend Amstelstad, Die Vreede En Vryheyd Voeyt”, date in exergue, rev Liberty seated amidst military trophies holding olive branch and staff topped with ‘Liberty’ cap, “En Die In Nood Door Macht Ook Twist En Twedracht Boeyt”, 71mm (vL II, 330/331, 2). Extremely fine or virtually so, with even grey tone, extremely rare. William was married at the age of 14, in 1641, to Princess Mary, the daughter of Charles I of England, then aged only 9. He was to die of smallpox in 1650 and his infant son, also William, succeeded him. This William married another Princess Mary, the daughter of James II of England, the couple succeeding to the throne of Great Britain in 1689 at the time of the Glorious Revolution.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, ROMANIA Roumaine de Navigation Aerienne, founded 1920, by Aristide Blank, Bronze Medal, by Henry Nocq, two bi-planes over map of Europe with flight-lines from Paris to Constantinople etc, rev bi-plane flies over speeding stage-coach, car and train, 72.5mm (Dogan 6801). Good very fine. Aristide Blank (1883-1960), Jewish Romanian financier, economist and banker, with interests in America. He was the victim of an attack in April 1924, an incident that sparked a considerable anti-Semitic campaign in Bucharest.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, RUSSIA Catherine II, the Great (1729-1762-1796), Uniface White Bisque Ceramic Medal, c.1765, after T Ivanov, her crowned and enrobed bust right, legend around, the reverse with scratched mark “M” or “W”, 54.5mm, contained in a slender contemporary gilt-metal mount with leaf design and suspension loop. Much as made, wonderfully decorative, good very fine and very rare. The mark is perhaps the Italic M of the Sèvres factory, c.1764-1769.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, RUSSIA Nicholas I (1825-1855), Unveiling of his Equestrian Statue in St Petersburg, Silver Medal, low purity silver of.500 fineness, 1859, by P Brusnitsyn, bust left in uniform with breast-plate, wearing eagle-topped helmet, rev the statue and plinth, 86mm (Diakov 681.1 R2). Light surface marks, toned, nearly extremely fine. The equestrian statue in St Isaac’s Square was designed by Auguste Ricard de Monferrand and was a technical wonder in its time for the way it balanced only on the horse’s two back legs. The plinth is of Finnish granite, decorated with sculptures executed by Russia’s leading sculptors. The monument, which took three years to complete, is one of the very few Imperial sculptural monuments to have survived the Soviet era.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, RUSSIA Nicholas II (1868-1894-1918), Laying the Foundation Stone of the Alexander III Bridge in Paris, 1896, and its Inauguration, 1900, Silvered-bronze Medal, by Daniel Dupuis, Alexandra Feodorowna holding small gavel, accompanied by Marianne and watched by Peace, lays the foundation stone beneath a bust of the late Tsar, rev River Goddess of the Seine and child recline before the bridge, legend in twelve lines below, 70mm, in maroon leather case of issue, the lid stamped with gilt border and “PONT ALEXANDRE III” (Diakov 1320.1). Struck with matt surface, virtually mint state. The bridge was designed by Joseph Cassien-Bernard and Gaston Cousin and built by Jean Résal and Amédée d’Alby. It was inaugurated ahead of the Paris International Exposition of 1900.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, TURKEY and the Ottoman Empire, and the wars against them, Poland, Johann III, Sobieski (1629-1684-1696), The Eternal Peace Treaty, 1686, between Poland and Russia, Silvered-bronze Medal (1686), by Giovanni Battista Guglielmada, crowned and enrobed bust of Sobieski right, rev Sobieski standing clasping hands with Tsarevna Sophia Alexeevna, their feet on up-turned crescent moon (Turkey), PAX FVNDATA CVM MOSCHIS, in exergue DECENNALIA AVG, 65.5mm (Sokolov 39; cf Hcz 2523). A struck medal, sharp very fine and very rare. This treaty confirmed the earlier Treaty of Andrusova, 1667, where Russia and Poland agreed control of separate parts of Ukraine and also not to enter into future treaties with the Turks. The pact was highly important in the Eastern European struggle against Turksh Tartars as, by signing it, Russia joined the anti-Turkish coalition of Poland, the Holy Roman Empire and Venice.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, TURKEY and the Ottoman Empire, and the wars against them, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire /Holy Roman Empire, The House of Hapsburg, Charles VI (1711-1740), The Capture of Belgrade from the Turks, 1717, Silver Medal, an Imperial eagle and lightning attack a tower topped by a Turkish crescent, rev star-lit landscape with a waning moon, DER TÜRCKEN HEER ZERSTIEBT, 32mm (Julius 1297; Mont 1515; Popelka 228). Darkly toned, extremely fine and rare.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, TURKEY and the Ottoman Empire, and the wars against them, Great Britain, George I (1660-1714-1727), The Treaty of Passarowitz, Silver Medal, 1718, by J Croker, laureate bust right in armour, rev the King standing below draped hangings, points at Morea on a library globe, PACIS ARBITER, 45.5mm (MI 437/39; Eimer 479; Pax 482; Nuri Pere 1156). Very fine, slight marking to metal behind King’s head.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, TURKEY and the Ottoman Empire, and the wars against them, Prussia, Asmi Achmet Effendi, Turkish Ambassador to the Prussian Court of Friedrich Wilhelm II, at Berlin, Silver Medal, 1791, bearded bust left, wearing turban, rev legend and date in seven lines, ZUM ANDENCKEN BEY., 29mm (Friedensburg/Seger 4554; Henckel 1922; ME 363; Voltolina 1737). Extremely fine.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, TURKEY and the Ottoman Empire, and the wars against them, France, First Republic, Napoleon, Battle of the Pyramids, Copper Medal, 1798, by A Bovy, uniformed bust right, rev Napoleon on horseback amongst standing soldiers, Pyramids beyond, SOLDATS! DU HAUT DE CES PYRAMIDES 40 SIECLES NOUS CONTEMPLENT, 41mm (d’E 769), struck with C and anchor privy mark (1822-1842), 41mm. Good extremely fine.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, TURKEY and the Ottoman Empire, and the wars against them, Great Britain, France and Russia, The Battle at Navarino, Bronze Medal, 1827, by Boyard, helmeted head of Minerva right, French legend around “The Anglo-French-Russian Fleet Defeat the Turks at Navarino, 20th of October 1827”, rev triplex of crowns, radiant crosses over crescents in the angles, 34mm, suspension loop and ring (Diakov 466.1 R2; MH 136 var; Eimer 1196); George I, Disabled Sailors Fund, Copper Medal, undated, by Barré, bare head left, rev wreaths above prow of ancient galley, 36mm (MH 154). Both very fine, second stained. (2)
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, TURKEY and the Ottoman Empire, and the wars against them, France, Napoleon III, The Battle of Inkermann, Copper Medal, 1854, by E A Oudiné, bust of Napoleon III left, rev two winged Victories of France and Britain with, behind, vanquished Turkish and Russian warriors, 72.5mm (Divo 211). Nearly extremely fine, small scuffs by B of BATAILLE, rare.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, TURKEY and the Ottoman Empire, and the wars against them, France, Napoleon III, The Capture of Sebastopol, Copper Medal, 1855, by Desaide Roquelay Sr, laureate bust left, rev legend on shield amidst military trophies, PRISE DE SÉBASTOPOL …, 46mm (Divo 275). Choice extremely fine, scarce.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, TURKEY and the Ottoman Empire, and the wars against them, France and Egypt, The Opening of the Suez Canal, Silver Medal, 1869, by Louis-Oscar Roty for the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez, seated female figure holds aloft the light of Progress to the standing figure of Industry, a sketched route of the Suez Canal beyond, rev legend in centre, inscriptions around, 42mm (Divo 606; BM Acq 1983-1987 p.25, 147). Matt surface, extremely fine. Struck for the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez. Formed in 1858, French private investors were the majority of the shareholders, with Egypt also having a significant stake. However in 1875, a financial crisis forced Isma’il to sell his shares to the British Government for £3,976,582. The company operated the canal until 1956, when it was nationalised by Nasser.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, TURKEY and the Ottoman Empire, and the wars against them, Crete, Abdul Aziz (1830-1861-1876), Campaign in Crete, 1st Crete Medal, Silver (Atik Girid Madalyasi) Medal, 1869, toughra, rev panorama of the island, 36mm (Nuri Peri 1108). Pierced as usual and with suspension rings, nearly extremely fine. Minor uprisings by the Greeks in Crete had become a regular occurrence but a demand for lower taxes and changes in the court system in May 1866 meant that Ottoman troops were mobilised even though the demands were met. It was their presence rather than the original demands that caused the outright rebellion that lasted till 1869. The Ottoman Empire was able to retain its hold on Crete for another 43 years. For a silver medal for the destruction of the monastery at Arkadi in 1866, see Greek medals, lot 1826
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, TURKEY and the ottoman empire, and the wars against them, Greece, Admiral Pavlos Koundouriotis (1855-1935), Victor of the Battle of Elli, Bronze Medal, 1912, by P M Dammann, bust left, rev Greek flag flies over the guns of the battlecruiser George Averof, 51mm (SCA 5, 396). Extremely fine. During the Balkan Wars, 1912-1913, the victory at Battle of Elli, 3 December 1912, kept the Turkish fleet out of the Aegean sea, however the Turks succeeded in sinking the Makedonia on the 1 January 1913, but were again defeated by Koundouriotis on the 5 January 1913.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, TURKEY and the Ottoman Empire, and the wars against them, Germany, The Quadruple Alliance, with Austria, Turkey and Bulgaria, Zinc Medal, 1914-1915, by A R Weinberger, conjoined helmeted or hatted uniformed busts of Wilhelm II, Franz Joseph, Mohammed V and Ferdinand I to right, VIRIBVS VNITIS MCMXV, rev Teutonic knight on horseback slays dragon, 50mm. A little spotted, good very fine.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, TURKEY and the Ottoman Empire, and the wars against them, Italy, The Italian-Turkish War, small Bronze Memorial Medal to the fallen at Tripoli, 1911, Italian soldier stands over fallen Turk, rev memorial, 26mm; another, Victory overlooks Tripoli harbour, rev legend on tablet, 24mm, both with integral suspension loops. Very fine. (2) In the Italian-Turkish War, Italy defeated Turkey and took the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean and Tripoli / Libya in North Africa. From then all of North Africa was in European hands, and the European powers had completed the partition of Africa with only Ethiopia and Liberia remaining independent.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, TURKEY and the Ottoman Empire, and the wars against them, Germany, The Quadruple Alliance, Zinc Medal, 1914-1916, conjoined busts of four leaders to left, Wilhelm II, Franz Joseph, Mohammed V and Ferdinand I, rev crossed sword, arms in angles, the Turkish shield left, 31mm, integral suspension loop with ring; Alliance with Austria, Silvered-metal Medal, busts of Wilhelm II and Franz Joseph left, 25mm, Prussian eagle suspender; Constantinople – Budapest, Brass Souvenir Medal, 29mm; Munich, Centenary of Oktoberfest horse racing, Bronze Medal, 1910, 32mm. Generally very fine. (4)
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Washington before Boston, Bronze Medal, 1776, by [Pierre Simon] Benjamin Duvivier, the first US strike, bust right with hair tied en queue, GEORGIO WASHINGTON SVPREMO DVCI EXERCITVVM ADSERTORI LIBERTATIS, rev Washington and four officers on horseback, the city of Boston beyond, 69mm (Baker 49). Surface a little dull, nearly extremely fine.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, MEDALS BY SUBJECT Exploration, Polar, The Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897-1898, Copper Medal, 1898, bust of Maria Theresia left (after Duvivier), rev legend in thirteen lines, BELGIS FORTIBVS QVI EXPEDITIONIS AD MARIA ANTARCTICA …, 50.5mm. Choice, virtually as struck, rare. The expedition, which was the first to winter in the Antarctic, was led by Adrien de Gerlache (Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery, 1866-1934) and had an international crew including Roald Amundsen, Frederick Cook and Henryk Arctowski, even the ships’s cat was Nansen. The expedition produced much good scientific material but the harsh conditions took their toll on the crew. The Belgica finally arrived back in Antwerp in 1899.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, MEDALS BY SUBJECT Exploration, Polar, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Death 1936, Bronze Medal, by P Richer and E Lindauer, bust right in high relief, rev starboard ship-portrait of the Pourquoi-Pas?, 68mm. Good very fine. Charcot’s Antarctic expedition in the Pourquoi-Pas? lasted from 1909-1911. He went on to command a Q-boat in the Royal Navy during the Great War, winning a Distinguished Service Cross. Charcot lost his life on the night of 15 September 1936 when the Pourquoi-Pas? sank during a storm off Iceland.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, MEDALS BY SUBJECT Medicine, London International Medical Congress, Copper Medal, 1881, by L C Wyon, crowned bust of Queen Victoria left, rev after a design by Sir John Tenniel, Hippocrates stands before a group, one holding a sick child, and protects them from the fleeting figure of Death, 77mm (BHM 3110; Brett 2393; Storer 6307). Good extremely fine.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, MEDALS BY SUBJECT World War I, Austria, Archduke Josef Ferdinand, the Capture of Lublin, Zinc Medal, by R Bachmann (1915), bewhiskered and bearded bust three-quarters right, rev soldier advances with flag, LUBLIN, 50.5mm (Hauser 591; Würzb 4162). Good very fine. The occupation of Lublin in 1915 by the German and Austro-Hungarian armies ended Russian rule in the city.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, MEDALS BY SUBJECT World War I, Germany, Schaumburg-Lippe, Adolf II, Prince (1883-1936, ruled 1911-1918), Iron Tribute Medal, 1917, unsigned, bust left wearing hussar’s busby, rev victorious youth on horseback to left, HEIMATDANK FÜR SCHAUMBURG-LIPPE, 61mm. Good very fine, rare. Adolf II was the last ruler of Schaumburg-Lippe, renouncing his throne on 16 November 1918. At the start of WWI he had become regimental commander of the Husaren-Regiment Landgraf Friedrich II von Hessen-Homburg and later he commanded the 3rd Garde-Kavallerie-Brigade. A Nazi sympathiser, he was denounced as a member of the Gestapo in 1934. He was killed March 1936, alongside his wife, Ellen Bischoff-Korthaus, when their tourist plane flew into the side of a volcano at Zumpango in Mexico.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, MEDALS BY SUBJECT World War II, Germany, The Battle of the River Plate, cast Bronze Oval Medal, 1939, busts of Admiral Graf von Spee and Kapitan Hans Langsdorff, 1914 and 1939, rev the battle-cruiser sails low in the waves, 17 Nov 1939, 74.5mm x 107mm (Kien 565). Much as made, extremely fine. The date is when the ship set sail for the South Atlantic. The Battle of the River Plate was fought the following month and after the famous British victory the Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled at Montevideo and on 20 December 1939, Langsdorff shot himself in his room in a Buenos Aires hotel, dressed in full dress uniform and lying on the ship’s battle ensign.
NUMISMATIC BOOKS, COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS Jones, M, The Art of the Medal, London, 1979, 192pp, b/w illustrations, cloth, jacket, good; Edmundson, J, Collecting Modern Commemorative Medals, London, 1972, 247pp, illustrations in the text, cloth, jacket, good; Taylor, J, The Architectural Medal; England in the Nineteenth Century, London, 1978, 244pp, illustrated, cloth, jacket, virtually as new; [Hull Grundy] The Hull Grundy Gift to the British Museum – Medals and Plaquettes, no date, 10pp, 9 plates, card covers; [British Museum] A Guide to the Historical Medals in the British Museum, London, 1924, 155pp, illustrations in the text, original boards, good; Martin, J S, Index to the Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, London, 2004, 311pp, casebound, virtually as new. (6)
MEDALS AND DECORATIONS Richard Colley, Marquis Wellesley (1760-1842), The Capture of Seringapatam (Srirangapatna), Copper Medal, 1799, by G Mills and N G A Brenet, bare head left, rev two soldiers, one with standard, one sword raised, stand over fallen Indian soldier, SERINGAPATAM, 40.5mm (Pudd 799.1; BHM 478; Eimer 904). A few slight scuff-marks, extremely fine. Behind the action on the reverse is a throne on raised dais perhaps signifying that the Indian soldier might indeed be Sultan Tipoo who was killed in the action. The medal is believed to have been commissioned for Mudie’s set of National Medals, but was not included.
MEDALS AND DECORATIONS The British Settlement at Bombay, and Victory over a French Squadron, White Metal Medal, 1804, for Mudie’s Series of National Medals, by J-P Droz and G Mills, Neptune reclines against globe, rev Neptune holds trident and Victory, 41mm (Pudd 804.1; BHM 567; Eimer 952; MH 555). Nearly extremely fine.
MEDALS AND DECORATIONS Francis Rawdon, Marquis of Hastings (1754-1826), Governor-General of Bengal, Victories in India (Pindaree and Mahratta Confederacy Defeated), Silver Medal for Mudie’s Series of National Medals, 1818, by W Wyon (after P Rouw) and H Howard (reverse), bare head left, rev Victory in chariot drawn by winged lions, PINDAREE & MAHRATTA CONFEDERACY DEFEATED, 41mm (Pudd 818.1; BHM 974; Eimer 1108). Dark tone, choice extremely fine and extremely rare in silver.
MEDALS AND DECORATIONS Major General Sir George Pollock GCB Bengal Artillery, Royal Military Academy Addiscombe (Croydon), an un-named specimen striking in Copper of the Pollock Prize Medal (awarded in Gold), by Benjamin Wyon, uniformed bust of Pollock left, name around, legend in three lines in border, rev legend in nine lines and around, 57.5mm (Pudd 847.1, R3). Extremely fine and very rare. The Pollock prize (first type) was awarded at the East India Company Military Seminary, later the Royal Indian Military College, Addiscombe and it continued to be awarded after the Academy moved to Woolwich, “to the most distinguished cadet of the season”.
MEDALS AND DECORATIONS Dr James Burnes (1801-1862), Grant Medical College, Bombay, Copper Medal, 1849, by B Wyon, bust of Burns left, rev arms of the college incorporating those of Burns, COLLEGIO MEDICO GRANT. FRATRES LATOMI BOMBAIENSES, 44.5mm (Pudd 849.2.2, R3;; Harris, British Freemasonry 131). Extremely fine, scarce. James Burnes, K.H. was Physician General to the Bombay and Provincial Grand Master for Western India. The medal also commemorates Burnes’s departure from India. The growth of the Masonic movement in India was extraordinary. The Indian Masons sponsored this award medal, another for the Byculla schools in Bombay and even a medal for the Montrose Academy.
MEDALS AND DECORATIONS Victoria, The Great Exhibition, London, Presentation Copper Medal, 1851, “For Services”, by William Wyon, head of Prince Albert left, named on edge, PRESENTATION – EAST INDIA COMPANY, 47.5mm (BHM 2465; Eimer 1461; Allen, Crystal Palace, HP-A050). Extremely fine. The East India Company exhibited in four separate catagories. The Presentation “Services” medal does not appear in Allen’s list of recipients (2006).
MEDALS AND DECORATIONS Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, The Prince’s Dock, Bombay, Opened 1 Jan 1880, Small Copper Medal, by J S & A B Wyon, bust right, FIRST STONE LAID …, rev four vignettes, lighthouse and other scenes, LAST STONE LAID BY SIR RICHARD TEMPLE BT GCSI 10 AP 1879, edge PRINCE’S DOCK BOMBAY 1 JAN 1880, 30mm, struck with undrilled integral suspension loop (Pudd 880.1, R2). Virtually mint state, rare.
MEDALS AND DECORATIONS Marquess of Lansdown, Silver Viceroy’s Medal, 1888, by Allan Wyon, awarded 1893, conjoined busts right of the Viceroy and Marchioness, rev ornate arms and supporters, with Collar and Orders around, named on edge, WON BY LCE CORPL J WOODWARD ST XAVIER’S COMPY 2/CVR 1892-3, 51mm (Pudd 888.2). Extremely fine. Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC (1845-1927), served as Viceroy of India (1888-1894), having previously been Governor-General of Canada (1883-1888) and Maud Evelyn Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne, GBE, CH, VA, CI (1850-1932), née Lady Maud Evelyn Hamilton.
MEDALS AND DECORATIONS Byramjee Jeejeebhoy, CSI (1822-1890), the Byramjee Jeejeebhoy (Parsee) Institution, Golden Jubilee, Bronze Medal, 1941, bust three-quarters left, rev façade of the Institution, 48.5mm, suspension loop and ring (Pudd 941.1.1). Good very fine. The Institution still flourishes, is co-educational and open to those of all cultures and religions.
MEDALS AND DECORATIONS Bombay, Silver Jubilee Olympic Games, Silver Committee Member’s Medal, 1935, bust of George V and Queen Mary left, COMMITTEE engraved below, rev Indian “Victory” holds wreath over head of the first of a line of athletes, 42mm (Pudd -; Thakkar Sports-6). Extremely fine. The reverse design inspired by the official Paris 1924 Participants’ medal
MEDALS AND DECORATIONS Bombay, Silver Jubilee Olympic Games, Copper Official’s Medal, 1935, bust of George V and Queen Mary left, COMMITTEE engraved below, rev Indian “Victory” holds wreath over head of the first of a line of athletes, 42mm (Pudd -; Thakkar Sports-6 in silver). Extremely fine. The reverse design inspired by the official Paris 1924 Participants’ medal
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