Archive (Sold Medals and Books)

 

Ireland. NATIONAL DOG SHOW. Bronze 44mm. $80. Sorry, SOLD (November, 2020)

Price: $0.00

SKU: Q6393-15922-KS

 

1681, England. EARL OF SHAFTESBURY ACQUITTED OF TREASON. By George Bower. Silver 40mm. MI I 583/259, Eimer 261. $675. Sorry, SOLD (October, 2021)

Price: $0.00

SKU: 17705-7A

 

1789, GEORGE III, RECOVERY FROM ILLNESS, CELEBRATION AT ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL. By J. Milton. Silver 33mm. BHM 295. $150. Sorry, SOLD (April, 2021)

Price: $0.00

SKU: 17153-4A

 

1810, Great Britain. THE REVEREND WILLIAM HUNTINGTON AND THE NEW PROVIDENCE CHAPEL. Hallmarked to IL. Cast silver 49mm. BHM 693A. Not included in volume 1. No rarity rating is provided in its listing in the appendix. It is presumably very rare. $675. Sorry, SOLD (October, 2021)

Price: $0.00

SKU: 17703-7A

 

1935, France. SYNDICAT PROFESSIONNEL DES PRODUCTEURS ET DISTRIBUTEURS ?LECTRIQUE. By Georges Contaux (1891-1984). Bronze 50mm. Cased. $90. Sorry, SOLD (April, 2021) ———- Georges Contaux was born in Paris. He entered the ?cole Boulle, where he studied sculpture and engraving. He joined the 26?me R?giment d?artillerie de campagne at Chartres in 1911. Contaux was wounded during World War I and had two fingers amputated. In 1921 he received an honorable mention at the Salon des Artistes Fran?ais. From 1922 to 1923 he worked for the engraver Pierre Lasserre (1870-1943). He then established himself at Vigneux-sur-Seine, where he remained, for the rest of his life, working as a sculptor and medallist. We was a prolific medallist producing about twenty-five hundred medals over the span of fifty years from 1930 to 1980. About fifteen hundred of his medals were religious and another eight hundred related to sports.

Price: $0.00

SKU: 15912-KS

 

1879, Ireland. THE APPARITION AT KNOCK, COUNTY MAYO. White metal 45mm. $150. Sorry, SOLD (July, 2023)

Price: $0.00

SKU: Q7111-14997-KS

 

1859, Great Britain. Art Union of London. THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, (1727-1789) painter. By E. Ortner (after a portrait by Johann Zoffany). Bronze 55mm. Obv: Draped bust of Gainsborough facing left. Rev: Detail from Gainsborough’s “The Wood Gatherers.” Edge: Incusely inscribed: ART UNION OF LONDON 1859. Bealah 11, BHM 2653, Eimer 1529. $200. Sorry, SOLD (October, 2021) ——– The commission for this medal was initially placed with Henry Weigall, but it was completed by Ortner.

Price: $0.00

SKU: 17784-9R

 

1805, Great Britain. VISIT OF GEORGE III. Unsigned. Bronze 38mm. No inscription on the ribbon. Cf. BHM 569, which is described as having the ribbon inscribed WEYMOUTH, listed as R. $225. Sorry, SOLD (June, 2023)

Price: $0.00

SKU: 3457-17380-7a

 

France. BIRTH OF VENUS. By Georges Gori. Bronze 244mm x 127mm. Framed. $750 ———– Georges Gori was born in Paris in 1900. He studied under Injalbert and exhibited at the Salon beginning in 1929. He won a bronze medal in 1931. Sorry, SOLD (July, 2022)

Price: $0.00

SKU: 4386-15207-6A

 

France. PAN. By Louis Desvignes (1877-1934). Uniface bronze 99mm. Set into a velvet display frame (medal is removable). $450. Sorry, SOLD (November, 2022)

Louis Desvignes, sculptor and medallist,was born on November 14 1877 at Creusot (Sa?ne-et-Loire), He was a student of Raoul. Verlet, Paul Auban and Henri Dubois at l’?cole des Beaux-Arts de Paris . He was a soci?taire du Salon des Artistes Fran?ais and won a gold medal in 1932. Desvignes died in Paris on June 22, 1934.

Price: $0.00

SKU: 3432-15627-6A

 

1914-15, Belgium. LA CANTINE DU SOLDAT PRISONNIER. By Godefoid Devresse. Bronze 55mm. $95. Sorry, SOLD (July, 2022) ———- Godefroid Devreese was one of Belgium’s most prolific medallists. He was born at Courtrai in 1861. He studied sculpture under his father and later at the Academy of Brussels. In 1885 he won the second Grand Prix de Rome. In 1889 he won the first Grand Prix for sculpture at the Academy of Brussels and a gold medal at the International Exposition in Cologne. A brief biography and a complete catalogue of his medallic works is provided in GODEFROID DEVRESE 1861-1941 by Poels, Vandamme and Van Dreiessche.

Price: $0.00

SKU: 1923-17106-5A

 

France. ST. JOAN OF ARC. By Oscar Roty (1846-1911. Grand Prix de Rome, 1875). Silver (stamped 1ARGENT) 45mm. $395. Sorry, SOLD (October, 2021) ———- Louis Oscar Roty was born at Paris on June 11, 1846. He initially studied painting at the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts under Lecoq and Boisbaudran. It is reported that he lost the money for a paint box and subsequently enrolled in a life-drawing class and thence into sculpting. This trajectory would eventually lead to his career as the most celebrated medallist of his time. Along the way, he studied in the atelier of the statuary Augustin Dumont and under Ponscarme, Chapu and Chaplain. He won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome for medal engraving in 1875. Roty spent three years in Rome, where he modeled a number of waxes. In 1888 he was elected to the Acad?mie des Beaux-Arts. He took the grand prize at the International Exposition in 1889. Roty was a commander of the L?gion d?Honneur. He was responsible for reintroducing the plaquette, an art form that had been neglected since the Renaissance. His ?Semeuse? (sower) was widely used on French coins and stamps. He died in Paris on March 23, 1911.

Price: $0.00

SKU: 18087-10A

 

France. ORPHÉE. By Raymond Delamarre (1890-1986). Bronze 114mm. Catalogue Général Illustré vol. 4 587/D. $175. Sorry, SOLD

Raymond Delamarre was born in Paris on June 8, 1890. He studied under his father, an engraver, and under Jules Coutan at l’École des beaux-arts de Paris. He was also a student of Rodin. He was mobilized in World War I and was wounded and captured in 1914. He returned to Paris following the war and won the first Grand Prize de Rome for Sculpture in 1919. He exhibited at the international expositions of 1925, 1931 and 1937. Delamarre is noted for large scale sculptures, and a bas-relief, Les Arts et Monuments Régionau on the liner ‘Normandie.”   He created a large body of medals and plaquettes. Delamarre died on February 28, 1986. Delamarre’s works, including his medals are discussed and illustrated in RAYMOND DELAMARRE, Sculpteur et Médailleur By Claire Maingon. Rennes, 1924

 

 

Price: $0.00

SKU: Q9092-16094-1A

 

1910, Great Britain. INTERNATIONAL PRINTING AND STATIONERY EXHIBITION. Signed J.M. 9 carat gold, 32mm diam.12.5 grams. Cased. $350. Sorry, SOLD (April, 2021)

Price: $0.00

SKU: 14986-KS

 

France. ÉCOLE THÉOPHILE ROUSSEL. By Alphonse-Eugène Lechevrel (1848 or 1850-1924). Bronze plaquette 81mm x 61mm. Cased. $240.

Alphone-Eug?ne Lechevrel was born in Paris in either 1848 or 1850. He studied under H. Fran?ois. He worked as a sculptor in various media, but also designed some stamps. Lechevrel first exhibited at the Salon in 1873 and won a medal in 1884. In 1877 he traveled to England to revive the art of engraving on layered glass. Lechevrel died in Paris in 1924.

Price: $225.00

SKU: Q0649-16119-1A