Archive (Sold Medals and Books)

 

France. COURSES VELOCIPEDES. Unsigned. Gilt 40mm. $75. Sorry, SOLD (March, 2022)

Price: $0.00

SKU: 19008-3B

 

1986, Great Britain. HENRI MATISSE, painter. By Avril Vaughan. Cast bronze 92mm. $200. Sorry, SOLD

Avril Vaughan, one of Britain’s leading medallists, was born in Twickenham in 1937. She won a scholarship to the Twickenham School of Art, where she studied in the 1950s. In the early 1960s she went to work for the designer and goldsmith, David Thomas, There she developed the skills in the cire perdue casting method, in stone cutting and in enamelling. She later freelanced as a jeweler and sculptor. In 1976 Vaughan worked for the Royal Mint and modelled the coinage for Tuvalu after designs by John Donald. She served as senior sculptor at the Franklin Mint U.S.A. for a couple of years, then returned to freelance work, undertaking commissions from the Royal Mint, the Norwegian Mint and the Royal Dutch Mint . She won a Prize at the 1992 FIDEM congress for the best portrait medal. She died in 2008.

Price: $0.00

SKU: 51063-5D

 

1844, Great Britain. OPENING OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE. By Allen & Moore. Bronze 22mm. BHM 2175. R. Sorry, SOLD (March, 2022)

Price: $0.00

SKU: 18866-3B

 

1885, Great Britain. TOWER HAMLETS BAND OF HOPE (Temperance). Prize. Silver (no hallmark, but it has every appearance of being silver) 38mm. Richly toned (not quite as “brown” as suggested by the pictures. Cased. $100. Sorry, SOLD (March, 2022)

Price: $0.00

SKU: 18679-3B

 

1976, France. CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS, Paris and Nancy. By N. Rips. Bronze 68mm. $95. Sorry, SOLD

Price: $0.00

SKU: 2683-42011-10C

 

(1982) Great Britain. BRONZE SHOAL. By Nigel Hall for the British Art Medal Society. Bronze 79mm diameter, 20mm wide. Limited edition of 21. Mark Jones: British Contemporary Medals p. 41, The Medal issue 1 page 6. $300. Sorry, SOLD (September, 2024)

Price: $0.00

SKU: 51065-TC

 

1995, Great Britain. REVERSE. By Jane McAdam-Freud. Partly polished cast bronze 105mm x 97mm. $150. Sorry, SOLD

Jane McAdam Freud was born in London on February 28, 1958. She was the daughter of artist Lucien Freud and great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud. She is noted for her conceptual sculpture. She held her first solo show, aged 18, under the curatorship of her teachers at Putney Art School. She also studied at the Wimbledon College of Art, the Central School of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art. Additionally, she spent some time studying mosaics in Ravenna. In 1986 she won the British Art Medal Scholarship in Rome where she studied sculpture at the Academia de Belle Arti de Roma and at the Scuola d’Arte della Medaglia in Rome. McAdam Freud held several exhibitions of her medallic works, which are represented in museums in the United Kingdom, United States, Greece and Germany. She died on August 9, 2022.

Price: $0.00

SKU: 51066-TC

 

1968, France. LA NUIT. By Jos? Charlet. Published by le Club Fran?ais de la M?daille. Cast bronze 121mm. Catalogue G?n?ral Illustr? vol. 4 366/A. Number 4 of a limited edition of 100. $225. Sorry, SOLD (May, 2024). ———– Jos? Charlet was born at Bourg-en-Bresse in 1916 He was a student of Gromort-Arretche at the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieur des Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Instituit d?Urbanisme. He became a professor in the history and critique of architecture at the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieur des Beaux-Arts de Paris but continued to work as a painter, sculptor and engraver. Charlet died in 1993,

Price: $0.00

SKU: 1256-20278-3C

 

1970, France. Judaica. LE GOLEM DU GRAND RABBIN LOW. By William Schiffer. Published by le Club Français de la Médaille. Cast bronze 125mm. Catalogue Général Illustré vol. 4. 1674/C. Number 4 of a limited edition of 150. $225. Sorry, SOLD (April, 2024)

Price: $0.00

SKU: 20279-3C

 

Great Britain, Wales. ST DAVID’S CATHEDRAL. Signed F.M.. issued by the Royal Mint. Bronze 57mm. $45. Sorry, SOLD

Price: $0.00

SKU: 18835-3B

 

1985 (edge stamp), LIBERATION OF PARIS IN 1944. By Lucien Gibert. Bronze 67mm. $50. Sorry, SOLD (March, 2020). ———— Lucien Gibert (1904-1988), sculptor and medallist, studied at l??cole des Beaux-Arts se Saint-?tienne and later at l??cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. He was a student of Jean Boucher and Charles Despiau. He won a gold medal at the International Exposition in Paris in 1937 and at the Salon des Artistes Fran?ais in 1939. Gibert was made an officer of la L?gion d?Honneur. He created over 200 medals.

Price: $50.00

SKU: 15764-KS

 

1916, Germany. THE GERMAN REPLY TO AMERICA. By Karl Goetz. Cast bronze 57mm. Kienast 176. $425. Sorry, SOLD (August, 2023) ———————– Karl Goetz was born at Augsburg in 1875. He attended the Art School in Augsburg, and later the art schools in Dresden, Leipzig , Berlin and Dusseldorf. He spent five years in Paris and later moved to Munich, where he settled in 1904. Goetz was a prolific medallist, most noted for his satirical works, especially those of World War I. Goetz died in 1950.

Price: $0.00

SKU: 30619-7C

 

1993, Great Britain. ALBERTO GIOACOMETTI, Swiss painter and sculptor. By Avril Vaughan. Cast bronze 93mm. $250. Sorry, SOLD

Avril Vaughan, one of Britain’s leading medallists, was born in Twickenham in 1937. She won a scholarship to the Twickenham School of Art, where she studied in the 1950s. In the early 1960s she went to work for the designer and goldsmith, David Thomas, There she developed the skills in the cire perdue casting method, in stone cutting and in enamelling. She later freelanced as a jeweler and sculptor. In 1976 Vaughan worked for the Royal Mint and modelled the coinage for Tuvalu after designs by John Donald. She served as senior sculptor at the Franklin Mint U.S.A. for a couple of years, then returned to freelance work, undertaking commissions from the Royal Mint, the Norwegian Mint and the Royal Dutch Mint . She won a Prize at the 1992 FIDEM congress for the best portrait medal. She died in 2008.

Price: $0.00

SKU: 51062-4T

 

1761, Great Britain. IMITATION OF THE OFFICIAL CORONATION MEDAL OF GEORGE III. Unsigned (after Lorenz Natter). Silver 35mm. Cf. BHM 21-24, Wollaston 21. $500. Sorry, SOLD

Price: $0.00

SKU: 15828-JG

 

1887, Great Britain. NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, MINING, ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. Bronze 51mm BHM. 3343 In its original case. $175. Sorry, SOLD (June, 2021)

Price: $0.00

SKU: 17390-5A