Archive (Sold Medals and Books)

 

France. POINTER CLUB FRAN?AIS. By P. Mahler. Silvered-bronze uniface plaquette 95mm x 74mm. $150. ——– I can find no biographical details for this artist. Sorry, SOLD (September, 2026).

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SKU: 6175-16806-7A

 

Undated (late 20th century), Great Britain. COUNTRY LIFE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY. Unsigned (In a cardboard Mappin & Webb case). Uniface Bronze 49mm x 68mm. $60. Sorry, SOLD

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SKU: 6782-19065-7B

 

1815, Great Britain, France. FLIGHT OF NAPOLEON FROM ELBA. By Nicolas Guy Antoine Brenet and Alexis Joseph Depaulis. Silver 41mm. Obv: The French eagle carrying a thunderbolt. Rev: Mercury flying and carrying a scroll. Mudie 32, BHM 869, Bramsen 1597, Eimer 1064, Fearon 266.4, Schwering 1469. $600. Sorry, SOLD (September, 2022)

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SKU: 19081-7B

 

1945, France. CAMILLE FLAMMARION – ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF FRANCE ? WOMEN’S PRIZE. By Alph?e Dubois. Bronze 68mm. $75. Sorry, SOLD

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SKU: 1538-19184-9B

 

Italy. PISANELLO. Unsigned after Pisanello. 20th Century cast bronze 159mm. $200. Sorry, SOLD (May, 2024)

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SKU: 5584-17724-4B

 

Ireland. AGRICULTURAL SHOW AWARD. By Joseph Moore and stampred ?WEIR & SONS DUBLIN.? Bronze 45mm. Cased. $125. Sorry, SOLD (January, 2023)

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SKU: 9195-16215-8A

 

1979, U.S.A. JAMES THURBER (1894-1961), Author and Cartoonist. By Ronald Searle, published by Club Fran?ais de la M?daille. Number 3 of a limited edition of 100. Bronze 76mm. $350. Sorry, SOLD (October, 2022) ————- Ronald William Fordham Searle was born in Cambridge on March 3 1920. He is best known as a satirical cartoonist and illustrator, and for being the creator of St. Trinian?s School. He started creating medals long after he had established his reputation. Searle started drawing at the age of five and left school at the age of 15. He trained at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology (now Anglia Ruskin University). In 1939 he enlisted in the army. In 1942 he was stationed in Singapore. He fought in Malaya and was taken prisoner. Searle was moved to the Kwai Jungle, where he worked on the ?Death Railway.? He suffered considerably during his imprisonment, contracting beri-beri and malaria, and was subjected to beatings. His weight dropped to under 90 pounds. During his captivity he made drawings that documented the atrocities he observed. He kept them hidden. About 300 survived the war. They are documented in a book published in 1986. The originals are in the collection of the Imperial War Museum. After the War, Searle served as a courtroom artist at the Nuremberg trials. During the 1950s he produced an extraordinary amount of work, which was published in many leading publications, including Punch and the New Yorker. In 1961 he moved to Paris. He died on December 30, 2011 in Provence.

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SKU: 7319-16199-6T

 

1884, Great Britain. 100TH BIRTHDAY OF SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE, Jewish philanthropist. By A.D. Loewenstark & Sons. Silver 41mm. BHM 3166 (not listed in silver), Eimer 1707. $950. Sorry, SOLD (April, 2020)

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SKU: Q7377-06134-1S

 

Great Britain, U.S.A. HARRY S. TRUMAN. By Paul Vincze. Large uniface cast bronze studio model approximately 8 ? inches in diameter. $450. Sorry, SOLD (May, 2024) ———- Paul Vincze (1907-1994), the son of a Jewish father and Roman Catholic mother was born in Hungary. He studied at the High School of Arts and Crafts in Budapest and later in the studio of E. Telcs. In 1935 he won a scholarship to study in Rome. In 1937 he moved to England and eventually became a British citizen. He worked out of a studio in Chelsea, but later moved to the south of France, where he died. He is noted for an extensive body of medals.

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SKU: 15636-1T

 

1936, U.S.A. THIRD INTERNATIONAL ENERGY CONFERENCE. By Maurice Delannoy (1885-1972). Bronze 50mm. $80. Sorry, SOLD

Maurice Delannoy was born on March 11, 1885, in Paris.  He studied at the École Germain Pilon under Charles Valton and Jules Édouard Roiné. He became a professor of drawing and worked as a medallisst and sculptor. He designed coins for Morocco, Monaco and Lebanon, and a considerable number of medals. Delannoy was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 1947. He died in Paris on April 26, 1972.

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SKU: A7313-15633-12S

 

1905, Belgium. EXPOSITION DE LIEGE ? ARTIST?S PROOF (see inset die on the reverse).. By Godefroid Devreese (1861-1941). Bronze 76mm. Poels, Vandamme & Van Driessche 63. $175. Sorry, SOLD (January, 2021). ————– 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.

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SKU: 16036-1T

 

France. SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE DES HABITATIONS – BON MARCHÉ (French Society of Affordable Housing). By Jules-Clément Chaplain (1839-1909). Uniface studio cast 256mm. Maier 72. $775.

Jules-Cl?ment Chaplain (1839-1909) was born at Mortagne. He entered the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1857. He studied under the sculptor, Jouffroy, and Eugene-Andr? Oudin?, the medallist. He won the first prize at the Concours de Rome in 1862. He studied in Italy from 1864 to 1868. Cahplain was elected to the Acad?mie des Beaux-Arts in 1881 and became an officer of the L?gion d’Honneur in 1888.

Price: $775.00

SKU: 0857-14049-3A

 

1934, Great Britain. SMETHWICK PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. Silver 45mm. $75. Sorry, SOLD (November, 2020)

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SKU: K1963-15352-KS

 

1928, Germany. CENTENARY OF THE DEATH OF FRANZ SCHUBERT. By Karl Goetz. Silver 36mm. Kienast 417, Niggl 1793c. $125. Sorry, SOLD (November, 2022)

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.

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SKU: 2425-18091-10A

 

1937, France. COMPAGNIE HOUILL?RE DE BESS?GES. By Paul Graf. Bronze 81mm. M?seler 18/114C. $175. Sorry, SOLD (May, 2023).———– Paul-Henri Graf was born at Boulogne-sur-Mer on December 1872. He was a student of Thomas and Ponscarme. He first exhibited at the Salon in 1892, where he won a medal in 1920.

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SKU: 5633-16082-1T