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Lot 2548
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, British Historical Medals, Henry VIII, Coronation 1509, ‘Fantasy’ Silver Medal, early 19th Century, by Edward Emery, crowned and robed facing half-length bust holding sword and orb, crowned Royal Arms and supporters, ANGLICE Z HIBERNICE: ECCLESIE SVPREMVM: CAPVT, 43.5mm (Pagan, Mr Emery’s Mint, BNJ 40, no. 60; Foley -). Extremely fine, rare.
Lot 2550
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, British Historical Medals, Elizabeth I (1533-1603), Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Quits Belgium 1587, cast Bronze Medal, unsigned, bust of Leicester three-quarters facing, in richly decorated tunic, collar and feathered hat, ROBE CO LEIC ET IN BELG GVBER 1587, rev sheep in flat country, to the right a dog leaves them, INVITVS DESERO, NO GRECEM SED INGRATOS, 49mm (Eimer 54; MI i 140-100). A contemporary cast, a little pitting, otherwise good very fine and rare. ex Seaby Bulletin 709, £700 ex Greta S Heckett Collection, Pittsburgh, Sotheby, 25 May 1977, lot 39, sold for £470 Despite tacitly supporting the Dutch for some time Elizabeth had been reluctant to make her involvement official for fear of offending the Spanish monarchy and risking war. Nevertheless after French and Spanish Catholics joined forces, with the aim of defeating French protestants, Elizabeth accepted the United Provinces’ offer of sovereignty and appointed Leicester as Governor and Captain General of Holland, Zeeland and the United Provinces. He was ultimately unsuccessful in this role. Although a prominent businessman, he misunderstood the delicate balance of trade between Dutch and Spanish merchants and, in aligning himself with Calvinists, he alienated himself from the provinces’ majority moderate Protestants and Catholics alike. At complaints from the states, Elizabeth conferred the command of the armies to Maurice, second son of the late Prince of Orange, during a period while Leicester was absent. On his return he quit the provinces and distributed these medals.
Lot 2561
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, British Historical Medals, William & Mary, Battle of the Boyne, 1690, Silver Medal, by J Luder, laureate and armoured bust of William right, GVILIELMVS . III . D . G. .MAG . BRIT . FRAN . ET . HIB . REX, rev William on horseback left with sword drawn, charges down the smaller figures of James II and Lauzun the French commander, Schomberg and Walker lie fallen, APPARUIT ET DISSIPAVIT, with LIBERATA HIBERIA MDCLXXXX in exergue, 57mm (MI i 715/134; Eimer 327; vL IV, 5; Woolf 11:4). Extremely fine, rare.
Lot 2563
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, British Historical Medals, Queen Mary, Death 1695, Gilt-bronze Medal, by Jan Luder, bust right, her hair diademed and bound with pearls, rev standing figures of Wisdom, Piety and Constancy, before funeral pyre with phoenix emerging, QVANDO VLLAM INVENIENT PAREM?, 58.5mm (MI 112/345; vL IV, 181). The gilding rich and contemporary though now a little rubbed, has once been mounted, better than very fine and very rare. Another gilt example of this medal, in superb condition, was sold by this House, 23 September, 2008 (lot 708).
Lot 2567
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, British Historical Medals, Anne, the Victories of the Allies, Dutch Silver Medal, 1703, by M Smeltzing, female figure stands with spear and money-bag, Neptune and Dutch solier behind and distant fleet beyond, rev two putti above and between lottery boxes, cornucopia to either side, TLOT DEELT AAN SYNE …, 47mm (MI 247/36; vL -; Julius 641; Weiler 129). Very fine and extremely rare.
Lot 2573
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, British Historical Medals, Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723), architect, scientist and mathematician, cast Bronze Medal, by Gottlieb (George) Daniel Gaab (c.1714-1784), mid 18th Century, bust left, hair long, in buttoned shirt and loose mantle, CHRISTOP WREN EQVES AVR & ACHITECT - OBIIT AD 1723 ÆT 91, rev the West front St Paul’s Cathedral, VNVM PRO CVNCTIS FAMA LOQVATVR OPVS – INCEPT AD 1676 / PERFECT AD 1711, with AEDESS PAVLI LOND in exergue and signed G D GAAB SCVLP, rosette stops in legends to both sides, 99.5mm (MI 458/69; Eimer 497; Eidlitz 1073; JT pp.25-26). A superb contemporary example of this extremely rare medal, the images and lettering carefully tooled, extremely fine. The portrait is a reversal of the ivory bust, carved on an oval, by David Le Marchand (1674-1726), now in the National Portrait Gallery. Gaab exhibited two medallions of Sir Christopher Wren and of St Paul’s Cathedral at the Free Society from 5 King’s Street, Seven Dials in 1783, marking the 60th anniversary Wren’s death. The medal commemorates Wren’s greatest achievement, but before this he was a founding member of the Royal Society, had the chair of Astronomy at Gresham College (London) and was later the fourth Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford.
Lot 2574
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, British Historical Medals, The Rev William Stukeley (1687-1765), Antiquary, “Archdruid” and Freemason, the Famous “Stonehenge Medal” on the Death of Stukeley, 1765, large Copper Medal, attributed to Gottlieb (George) Daniel Gaab (active 1744 - d. 1784), bare head of Stukeley right with a wreath of clover (or, more likely, oak leaves) in his hair, REV GVL STVKEKEY M D SR & AS, æt 54, rev view of Stonehenge, OB MAR 4 1765 / Æ 84, 84mm (BHM 94). Choice extremely fine, light patination and extremely rare. Stukeley was a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal College of Physicians, and the re-formed Society of Antiquaries. The source of the images on both sides of the medal relate directly to Stukeley’s most famous book “Stonehenge a Temple Restor’d to the British Druids [&] Abury, a Temple of the British Druids …”, published in 1740. The engraved frontispiece shows the same bust, which is taken, in turn, from a self-portrait, showing him as a Druid, that is now in the British Museum. The reverse, also taken from the book, shows a “Prospect of STONEHENGE from the southwest”. It was the late Thomas Stainton who attributed the portrait as after that by David Le Marchand (annotations to his copy of BHM), which is known to have been executed in 1722, when Stukely was 35 – not the 54 shown on the medal. The medal is believed to have been made around 1775, ten years after Stukeley’s death. The medallist was certainly confused by Stukeley’s age at the time of his death, he died aged 78 and not 84, as shown on the medal’s reverse. Daniel Gaab signed only one medal, that of Sir Christopher Wren (see previous lot). ex “English Collector”, Glendining, 22 November 1989, lot 131, and Roy Davids Collection. Another example was sold in Baldwin’s Auction 38, 4 October 2004, lot 1037
Lot 2582
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, British Historical Medals, Manchester Grammar School, Charles Lawson (1728-1807), Usher, 1749, and Headmaster, 1764-1807, Glazed Frosted Silver Prize Medal (1847), by William Wyon, bust of Lawson three-quarters right in clerical jacket, rev PALMAM QUI MERUIT FERAT within wreath, 56.5mm, glazing with silver border (BDM VI 684). An un-named specimen, virtually mint state, rare. After a portrait by William Marshall Craig and engraved by James Heath. At the school Lawson was referred to as “Millgate’s flogging Turk”, he always spoke to boys in the third person beginning with the phrase ‘Psha, blockhead’. He was however exceedingly caring and the School continued to flourish.
Lot 2585
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, British Historical Medals, George III, Accession, Copper Medal, 1760, by Thomas Pingo, armoured bust left, legend on ribband, signed on truncation, rev Tellus seated at right, wearing mural crown, lions and shield at her side, watching four maidens dancing around an oak-tree, tellvs jactabit alvmno, 54.5mm (BHM 1; Eimer, Pingo 16 “copper, rare”; Eimer 682). Extremely fine, handling marks and hint of obverse die flaw, rare. The medal is adapted from that struck to commemorate George attaining his majority.
Lot 2593
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, British Historical Medals, City of London, Silver Broker’s Pass, c.1830s, by J Davis, crowned Royal arms with supporters, rev arms of the City of London with griffin supporters, engraved name WILLIAM B CORRIE below, 40.5mm (Naylor [2008] 6b). Extremely fine and rare. In 1826 a “Commission of Bankrupt” was awarded against William Corrie of Liverpool, Broker, and Edgar Corrie of the City of London, trading as William and Edgar Corrie & Co. Naylor estimates some 220 passes of this type issued.
Lot 2602
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, British Historical Medals, Sir Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland (1742-1817), Silver Tribute Medal on the erection of the Tenantry Column in his honour, 1816, by I Porter(?), bust left, rev the Column at Alnwick, 53.5mm (BHM 917, R2). Extremely fine and very rare. The Tenantry Column, designed by Charles Harper, was erected as a display of gratitude to the Duke by local tenants and farmers, who had had their rents reduced following the hardships of the Napoleonic Wars. The Duke believed that if the tenantry could afford such a monument they could also afford a return to full rent. This, in turn, led to many being forced into bankrupcy and without the continued subscriptions the Duke was forced to finish the “Farmers’ Folly” himself.
Lot 2611
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, British Historical Medals, Benjamin Arthur Heywood (1755-1828), Banker, the Royal Mechanics’ Institution, Manchester, founded 1823, Silver Medal, by William Wyon, bust right, B A HEYWOOD behind, rev façade of the Institution, 50.5mm (BHM 1209, R2; Eimer 1170; JT 111a). Matt surface, obverse with dark tone, very fine, reverse better, very rare. The Heywood family were Liverpool merchants who later established the bank Heywood, Sons & Co in 1773, becoming Heywood Brothers & Co in 1788. Almost a century later, in 1874, they were acquired by the Manchester & Salford Bank for £240,000, in turn Williams Deacon’s Bank, and finally, in 1930, the Royal bank of Scotland. Benjamin Arthur Heywood was a founder of the Royal Mechanics’ Institution and this medal was a prize in his name. It would have been issued in a glazed frame. His son Benjamin Heywood was also a founder of the Institute, serving as its president for 15 years from its foundation until 1840.
Lot 2612
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, British Historical Medals, Derbyshire (Archery Society), Gilt-silver Medal, 1823, by B Wyon, bow, arrow and stag’s head upon a target, rev three classical figures, the centre one crowning a female archer left, watched by a male archer right, 53mm (BHM -). Extremely fine, very rare. Another example, not gilt but with a watch-type suspender, was offered in the E W Danson Collection (DNW Auction, 25 November 2013, lot 1199). These medals are likely to have been intended as a prizes awarded at an archery day held at Chatsworth on 28 August 1823, an event recorded in a painting and subsequent print.
Lot 2629
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, British Historical Medals, The Great Exhibition Crystal Palace 1851, Official Bronze Prize Medal, by W & LC Wyon, conjoined busts of Victoria and Prince Albert left, dolphins below, no colon after REG, rev Britannia seated holds laurels over Industry watched by Europe, Asia, Africa and America, LEONARD C WYON. DES: & SC: ROYAL MINT in exergue, edge PRIZE MEDAL OF THE EXHIBITION W.STRODE CLASS XXII, 77mm (Allen HP-A025). Very fine, some edge bruises, a very rare variety. W Strode was in the City of London. This medal was awarded for gas stoves (ref Allen vol.II)
Lot 2640
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, British Historical Medals, Arthur, Duke of Connaught, Marriage to Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, Silver Medal, 1879, by J S and A B Wyon, conjoined busts of the couple to left, rev crowned armorial shields with ribbons and crests, within decorative border, 64mm, in Wyon fitted case of issue (BHM 3052; Eimer 1662). Extremely fine or virtually so, light tone, rare. Arthur Duke of Connaught (1850-1942) was the third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Louise Alexandra Margaret (1860-1917) was the daughter of Prince Frederick Charles Nicholas of Prussia.
Lot 2653
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, British Historical Medals, Colonel R Y Armstrong (died 1894), Royal Engineers, Silver Armstrong Memorial Prize Medal, by Frank Bowcher, 1902, awarded 1924 to 2nd Lt J C R Fitzgerald-Lombard, RE, bust three-quarters left wearing fur wrap, rev hand rising from crown clasps thunderbolt, 56mm. Matt surface, extremely fine, rare. Colonel R Y Armstrong, CB, FRS, joined the Royal Engineers in 1858, retiring in 1892. He was one time Inspector of Submarine Defences, contributed to the development of signaling and was Instructor in Telegraphy at Chatham. The medal was awarded annually to the cadet at the Royal Military Academy who showed the greatest proficiency in Electricity. James Cotter Roger Fitzgerald-Lombard (1905-1981), was commissioned from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, to be a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in 1925 serving, before the War, in India, China and Hong Kong, then during the War, in France, Iceland, France and Belgium. He commanded the Royal Engineers, Sussex and Surrey, 1950-1951 before retiring with the honorary rank of Colonel.
Lot 2661
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, British Historical Medals, “Destruction of the Town”, large cast Bronze Environmentalist Medal, by Jacqueline Stieger for the British Art Medal Society 1992, view of a town high street, cracks appearing throughout flan, rev aerial view of town with cracks through flan, 74mm (BAMS 87). As issued, rare. From an edition of 24. The medallist wrote of this piece that it shows “the damage caused to the High Street by traffic, the tyre marks breaking up the picture and cracking through the medal into the reverse side, in turn destroying the town plan” (The Medal No.21, p.122, Autumn 1992)
Lot 2663
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Algeria, Exposition Philatelique Internationale Afrique du Nord, Bronze Plaquette, 1930, unsigned but for Arthus Bertrand, the cathedral in Algiers, olives left and right, rev montage of plane, ship, train, lorry, camel, bicycle and walker, 41mm x 57mm, in case of issue (with Arthus Bertrand name in lid). Extremely fine and rare.
Lot 2674
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Egypt, University of Cairo, Centenary of the Facility of Medicine and International Congress of Tropical Medicine, Gilt-bronze Delegate’s Badge, 1928, ancient Egyptian male, seated left, rev legend in Arabic and French, 46mm x 23.5mm, suspension loop, ring and ribbon. Extremely fine, rare.
Lot 2680
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, France, Louis XIV (1638-1643-1715), Capture of Tournai and Courtrai by the French Army, large Bronze Medal, 1667, unsigned, armoured and bewigged bust right, his cravat tied in a bow, rev Louis stands as Roman general, crowned by Fame and the figures of the two cities kneel and offer keys, River Gods of Lisa standing and Scaldis reclining, CIVITAS TORNACENSIS ET CVRTRACENSIS, edge plain, 88.5mm (TN XI, 6; vL -). Nearly extremely fine, rare.
Lot 2681
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, France, Louis XVI (1754-1774-1793) and Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793), The Birth of the Dauphin, Silver Medal, 1781, by B du Vivier, for the six Guilds of Merchants in Paris, busts vis-à-vis, he with Order on sash, she with bejewelled dress and hair combed high, LUD XVI FR ET NAV REX * MAR ANT AUSTR REG, rev dolphin entwined around ship’s rudder, the fleet sails beyond, ASSERENDI NOVA SPES COMMERCII, legend continues in six lines REGI DE ORTU SS DELPHINI … in exergue, 61mm (Nocq 206). An original striking, extremely fine with only the most minor of handling marks, extremely rare. From the Collection of the Aligre family (Drouot Auction, Paris, 6 April 2005, lot 27), and presumably originally acquired at the time of issue by Étienne François d’Aligre (1727-1798), Magistrate and President of the Parliament of Paris.
Lot 2685
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, The Bonaparte Sisters, Princess Paulina Borghese (1780-1825), complimentary small Copper Medals (2), 1808, by B Andrieu, head of Paulina left, hair tied up, rev the Three Graces, legends in Greek, 22.5mm (Br 770; Julius 1977), choice mint state; another, struck without collar on cast copper flan, to resemble an ancient Greek coin, 21.5mm, very fine but extremely rare. (3)
Lot 2701
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Prince Victor Napoléon Bonaparte (1862-1926), Pretender (as Napoléon V) to the French throne, Copper Presentation Medal, 1901, by Wincenty Trojanowski, bust right with full moustache, rev radiating crown with olive branch to left, 68mm (Strzalkowski 20). A handsome portrait, virtually mint state, rare. Wincenty Trojanowski (1859-1928), Polish sculptor, painter and medallist, born Warsaw. Though acclaimed, his works, medallic or otherwise, are seldom seen in the commercial market.
Lot 2702
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, France / USA, Fondation Carnegie, The Andrew Carnegie Medal for France, founded 1909, Silver Presentation Plaquette for Lifesaving, awarded Auguste Keufer, 1909, by Louis Dejeau (1872-1953), bust of Carnegie right, FONDATION CARNEGIE 1909 / LIBÉRALITÉ D’UN CITOYEN AMÉRICAIN POUR RÉCOMPENSER LES ACTES DE COURAGE ACCOMPLIS EN FRANCE, rev diaphonous Victory places a wreath on the head on a kneeling naked hero, named and dated on tablet below, 81mm x 53mm, in fitted case of issue with “FONDATION CARNEGIE” in gilt on lid (small adhesive tape repair) (Marx 351). Extremely fine, reverse deeply toned, silver examples are extremely rare. The recipient perhaps Auguste Keufer (1851-1924), the famous French Trade Union leader and long time president of the Fédération française des travailleurs du Livre.
Lot 2732
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, Germany, Augsburg, Religious Box Medal (Schraubmedaille), c.1720, containing 23 hand-coloured roundels, by P P Werner, bust of Christ to right, nimbate and by drapery, rev the angels climb Jacob’s ladder, WANN IACOB IM HERREN RVHT. IST VBER IHN DER ENGEL HUT, 43.5mm, roundels of King Augustus II of Saxony, the Electress Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, a cleric and 20 of biblical scenes, the text marked on each (see Goppel 1151 for reverse; Koch -; Whiting -). Medal and contents very fine, very rare. The roundels probably all designed by Gottfried Rogg and engraved by Abraham Reinshart, though their separate signatures appear on one roundel each.
Lot 2734
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, Germany, Judaica, Nürnberg, The Flight from Egypt, Gold Medal of 2-Ducats, undated, by G F Nürnberger (1677-1721) and Daniel Sigmund Dockler (1688-1730), Moses parts the Red Sea, those who have crossed pray, BELEBET GOTTES KINDER, rev the Egyptian army, their horses and chariots swamped by the waters, 30.5mm, 6.97g (Gop -; Finkelstein -; Erl -). A decorative medal, extremely fine and very rare.
Lot 2742
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, Greece, Kefalonia, The creation of the Ionian State and the end of Venetian Rule, Gilt-silver Medal, 1800-1801, clasped hands hold cross above city gateway and walls, rev Venetian lion holds bundle of spears, legends in greek around, 45.5mm. Once mounted, very fine and exceptionally rare. The French occupied Kefalonia for 20 months, from July 1797, and with the blessing of Archbishop Ioannikios Anninos dismantled the Venetian administration. In October 1798 the joint fleets of Russia and Turkey occupied the Island and the Ionian State under the suzerainty of the Sultan by the Treaty of Constantinople was established on 21 March 1800. The implementation of the new regime was to cause serious rioting in 1800, 1801 and 1802. There was further unrest and regime change over the next few years till in 1815, Kefalonia became a part of a British protectorate under the name of the United States of the Ionian Islands.
Lot 2743
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, Greece, Markos Botsaris (c.1788-1823), General and Hero of the Greek War of Independence, Death 1823, at the Battle of Karpenisi, Silver Medal, by Hartmann, Athena stands weeping next to urn on pedestal, legend around, rev panorama of the Battle of Karpenisi, the Turkish encampment, left attacked by the Greeks, date below, beaded border both sides, obliquely milled edge, 25mm (Spink Auction 5, 367; Erbstein 18158; Dogan 6473; Rosey 2442). Nearly extremely fine with light grey patina, extremely rare.
Lot 2746
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, Greece, Otto (1815-1867, King 1832-1862), Accession 1832, Copper Medal, by C Voigt, bare head right, rev Greece seated left on prow, holding cornucopiæ, GRAECIA REDIVIVA, with MDCCCXXXII in exergue, 41mm (see Divo 10, fig A, for reverse). Good very fine and rare.
Lot 2747
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, Greece, Otto (1815-1867, King 1832-1862), Accession 1832, Gilt-metal Medal, by C Voigt, bare head right, as in previous lot, with muled rev within wreath, AU NESTOR DE L’ARMÉE FRANÇAISE 1817, 42mm. Nearly extremely fine, very rare. The medal seemingly produced by the electrotypen process.
Lot 2765
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, Greece, France, World War I, the Naval Mission to Greece, 1916-1917, Bronze Medal, by Pierre-Alexandre Morlon (1878-1951), La France wearing winged helmet, attacks left, rev scroll on oak leaves, engraved name and legend, ADRIEN LE VERGER – SOUVENIR RECONNAISSANT DE LA MISSION NAVALE EN GRECE – 1916-1917, 63.5mm (References to the medal without legend: Frankenhuis 238; CGMP p.269; BDM VIII, 78; V&A Exhibition Catalogue 1998, 33). Extremely fine, rare.
Lot 2767
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, Greece, Alexander I (1893-1917-1920), Gold Medallic Coinage, 4-Ducats, 1917, by Brulat, bust of Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos right, rev shield of arms on eagle, dates to either side, 1909-1917, milled edge, 12.05g (KM X -). Much as struck, though double-striking to reverse, choice extremely fine and without any sign of having been mounted, variety unlisted by Bruce. During this very turbulent period of modern Greece, the country was divided between Royalists and Republicans and supporters of both factions commissioned the striking of medallic 4-Ducat “coins”, which were intended to be worn by the lady-supporters of either faction. In this condition and having never been mounted, they are exceptionally rare.
Lot 2776
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, India, Sir Henry Hardinge (1785-1856), The Treaty of Lahore, Frosted Silver and Glazed Medal, 1846, by G G Adams, bare head left, his name behind, rev Victory receives olive branch from kneeling warrior, MENS AEQUA REBUS IN ARDUIS, 58mm, glazed and within silver outer edge, in fitted case of issue (BHM 2228; Eimer 1404; Pudd 846.1, R2). Choice mint state and excessively rare. Harding, a career soldier, had fought in the Peninsula. He was appointed Governor-General of India in 1844 and signed the Treaty of Lahore, ending the first Sikh War on 9 March 1846. Brown [BHM] records that Hardinge sat for the portait in London with the last sitting on the day that he sailed to take up his appointment as Governor-General. The medal is recorded in silver though, to the cataloguers knowledge, no glazed specimens have been noted.
Lot 2777
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, India, Lt Col W G R Cordue, RE, “Mint Master Bombay”, Silver Ingot-shaped Pendant, 1913, by the Bombay Mint, bust right with spray of flowers behind, signed KW in monogram, rev legend, 29mm x 21mm, suspension ring (Pudd 913.6, R3). Extremely fine and rare. William George Ranger Cordue (born 1863), appointed Assay Master in 1905.
Lot 2788
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, Italy, Giovanni da Cavino (1500-1570), Faustina II, wife of Marcus Aurelius, struck Bronze Medal, c. mid-1550s, bust right, FAVSTINA.AVG.ANTONINI.AVG.PII.FIL., rev the six Vestal Virgins, one accompanied by a child, sacrificing at an altar in front of the Temple of Vesta, SC, 30.46g, 36mm (Klawans 2; Kress 407; Lawrence 59; Johnson/Martini 1729ff). An original striking, extremely fine and very rare. ex Morton & Eden auction, 27 June 2006, lot 395 (part)
Lot 2794
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, Italy, Vittoria Della Rovere (1622-1694), uniface Florentine cast Bronze Portrait Medal, by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, 1685, bust right, in the costume of an oblate of the Congregazione di Montalve, with a pendant cross, VICTORIA MAG DVC ETR, 87mm (V&T 43). Sharply cast, extremely fine with light patination, rare. ex Benjamin Weiss Collection ex Baldwin’s Auction 63, 30 September 2009, lot 1347 Vittoria della Rovere was the daughter of Claudia de’ Medici and Federico Ubaldo of Rovere. She was promised at the age of one to her cousin Ferdinand II de’ Medici and the promise was formalised in 1634. She was married three years later in 1637 and widowed in 1670. She became patroness of the Congregazione di Montalve in 1680
Lot 2795
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, Italy, Vicenzo da Filicaia (1642-1707), poet and politician, Florentine cast Bronze Medal, by Antonio Montauti (? - c.1740), bewigged bust right, VICENTIVS A FILICAIA SENATOR FLORENTIVS, rev eagle flying above the clouds, SPERNIT HVMVM, 91mm (V&T 93). Good very fine, dark patination, pierced and two minor flaws to outer rim, rare. ex Michael Hall Collection (Part I), Baldwin’s Auction 64, 4 May 2010, lot 466
Lot 2796
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, Italy, Caterina Sansedoni Marsili (wife of Alfonso Marsili, married 1707), Florentine cast Bronze Portrait Medal, 1720, by Giovanni Francesco Pieri (1699-1773), bust right in high relief, her hair tied up, rev Time, watched by winged Victory, brandishes staff over anguished figures, 92mm (V&T 115). Good very fine, minute piercing in the outer rim, rare.
Lot 2801
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, Italy, Guiseppe Mazzini (1805-1872), Political activist for the Unification of Italy, uniface circular Bronze Portrait Plaque, c.1849, bearded bust left, name around, 137mm, suspension ring. The style somewhat elementary, extremely fine and rare. Guiseppe Mazzini – “The beating heart of Italy”, joined with Garibaldi during the revolts of 1848-1849. He was exiled in London on several occasions. The cataloguers know of no other medallic portraits of Mazzini.
Lot 2803
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, Italy, Navigazione-Generale Italiana, Maiden Voyage of the T/n Roma, Genoa to New York, 21 September 1926, Bronze Plaquette, unsigned, Roma as the figurehead of a massive galley rowing to the left, 78mm x 123mm. Nearly extremely fine, rare. The Roma carried 1639 passengers. The statue of Roma was a feature in the ‘Great Hall’ on the ship.
Lot 2805
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, Mexico, France, Exposition Universelle Internationale, Paris 1900, Bronze Plaquette, by J F Contreras, struck in Paris, in Celebration of Mexico’s Participation, the figure of Mexico stands by flaming urn and points towards pavilion, boy holds plaquette with legend, rev radiant sun rises above pavilion, olive spray to fore, un-named tablet below, 90mm x 52.5mm, in case of issue (Grove -). A superb design in the Art Nouveau style, virtually mint state and extremely rare.
Lot 2806
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, Netherlands, Spanish Netherlands, Satirical Medal, undated (1592), soldiers and priests reach for plaque in palm tree, ADVERSVS. INNIXVM VLTRO SESE ERIGIT PONDVS, rev shepherds seated by tree, one playing flute, FISTVLA. DVLCE. CANENS NOSTRVM NON DECIPTA ARGVM around, NON TEMERE CREDENDVM in exergue, 58mm (vL I, 428; Pax 29; Fieweger 755). About extremely fine, rare.
Lot 2809
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, Russia, Count M Platov, Bronze Medal, by Joseph Mainèrt(?), uniformed bust left, HETMAN PLATOFF, rev ACRI MILITIA VEXAVIT GALLOS EQUES METUENDUS HASTA, 48mm (Diakov -). About extremely fine and very rare. Count Matvei Ivanovich Platoff, Ataman of the Don Cossacks and a Russian commander in the Napoleonic wars
Lot 2820
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, and the wars against them France / England, The Crimean War, Napoleon II and Queen Victoria, Victories of the Allies on the Black Sea and the Danube, Copper Medal, 1854, by Laurent Joseph Hart, conjoined busts left of the monarch and emperor, a display of Turkish trophies with dome of mosque beyond, 72mm (Divo 214; Dogan 6541). Nearly extremely fine, very rare.
Lot 2821
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, and the wars against them The Crimean War, the Battles of Alma, Balaclava and Inkermann, 1854, Set of White Metal Medals (3), by Messrs John Pinches, each with dramatic battle scene, rev legends with details, in ‘rose’ form on last, 41mm, in rectangular maroon leather fitted case of issue (BHM 2539-2541; Eimer 1490-1492; Allen, Crystal Palace, 1854-165, 170, 175). First extremely fine, the second and third very fine, case damaged, rare as a complete boxed set. (3)
Lot 2825
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, United States of America and the Americas, Cuba, The Capture of Morro Castle, Havana and the deaths of Don Luis de Velasco and Vincenzo Gonzales, Copper Medal, 1763, by T F Prieto, conjoined busts right, bewigged and wearing frock coats, rev the fort’s magazine explodes with great force, ships and boats around, soldiers on the land, IN MORRO VIT GLOR FVNCT, 49mm (Betts 443; Medina 12; Eimer 704). Nearly very fine and rare. Morro Castle was captured from the Spanish in August 1762 by a huge British fleet of 200 vessels and 14,000 men, under the joint command of Lord Albermarle and Admiral Sir George Pocock. The British soldiers are seen on the medal, on 30 July, storming the fort as it explodes, sending the bodies of the defenders into the air. ex Edward Roehrs Collection
Lot 2829
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, United States of America and the Americas, USA, George Washington (1732-1799), President and General, Oval Portrait in White Glass Paste, in the style of William Tassie, his be-wigged bust left, the reverse incised “GW”, 39mm x 30mm, in plain gilt-metal frame with suspension loop. Much as made, good very fine and rare. Believed to be a memorial piece contemporary with Washington’s death.
Lot 2830
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, United States of America and the Americas, France / USA, The Statue of Liberty Inaugurated, large Copper Medal, 1886, by Louis-Oscar Roty (1846-1911), for the Union Franco-Americaine, and the Centenary of Ameican Independence, 1876, winged female figure rows the figures of France and America towards the statue, rev medallic bust of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904), on shields and olive branch, legends below and around, 100mm, in leather case of issue (with adhesive tape repairs) (Maier 92; Baxter 30, 68mm). A handsome medal, extremely fine and this larger diameter very rare. The Union Franco-Americaine was established to oversee the gift of the Statue of Liberty, which was sculpted by Bartholdi and engineered by Gustave Eiffel. The opening ceremony was held on the 28 October 1886.
Lot 2831
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, United States of America and the Americas, USA, Christopher Columbus, the Columbian Exposition and the 400th Anniversary of the Discovery of America, large Lead Medal, 1892, by Stefano Johnson (Milan), medallic bust of Columbus supported by Indian and European Princesses, rev winged Victory with cherubs hover above the defeated Indian warriors, 101mm, in fitted case (MH 522; Rulau-B10). Very fine, rare.
Lot 2834
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Art Medals, United States of America and the Americas, USA, The United States Antarctic Expedition, 1939-1941, Service Medal, an unnamed bronze specimen, the globe as seen from Antarctica, rev legend, 34mm, suspension ring and ribbon. Extremely fine, rare. This medal was awarded by Congress to those who participated in the third expedition led by Admiral Richard E Byrd (1888-1957). It was the first one on which he had the official backing of the US Government. The project included extensive studies of geology, biology, meteorology and exploration. However, in March 1940 Byrd was recalled to active duty in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. The expedition continued in Antarctica without him. 60 medals were awarded in gold, including one to Admiral Byrd, 50 in both silver and bronze, the bronze being for those who only made one summer trip. The medal was designed by John R Sinnock, Chief Engraver of the Philadelphia Mint.
Lot 2842
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Medals by Subject, Art, France, the Manufacture of Medals (c.1910), by Ovide Yencasse (1869-1947), for Duval et Janvier (Janvier et Berchot), a moneyer from ancient Greece strikes a coin at a bench, rev the Kimon Syracuse Decadrachm on olive spray, dates engraved below, 1846, 1862, 1884, 1919 & 1926, 87.5mm x 100mm, numbered “148” on edge (Maier 197, listed only as 54mm x 60mm). Very fine, rare.
Lot 2850
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Medals by Subject, Exploration, United Kingdom, Royal Geographical Society, Gilt-bronze Medal, for the East Africa Expedition, 1878-1880, Minerva stands by globe and sextant, rev legends and wreath, 39mm. Pierced, scuffed and bruised, fine and very rare. The medal was struck for presentation to the members of the expedition led by Alexander Keith Johnston (1844-1879), to Lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika. Johnston died from malaria and dysentry in Beho Beho, some 120 miles from Dar es Salaam. The expedition was completed under the leadership of Joseph Thompson (1858-1904), who was to receive the Society’s gold Founder’s Medal in 1885.
Lot 2855
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Medals by Subject, Exploration, Russia, Alexander I (1777-1801-1825), Admiral Bellingshausen’s Southern Circumnavigation and Antarctic Expedition, on the sloops Orient and Pacific, Bronze Medal, 1819, bust right, rev legend in five lines, 42mm (Diakov 417). Nearly very fine, rare. The expedition saw the first recording of Antarctica. Purchased from Liverpool Medals, February 2000 (F2550)
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