Portrait Medals

 

1911, Great Britain. BEATRICE BLAKEMAN. By Theodore Spicer-Simpson. Uniface cast bronze 104mm. $450

Theodore Spicer-Simpson was of English background born at Le Havre in 1871. He studied in England, Germany and at l’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. He worked as a sculptor, painter and medallist. Spicer-Simpson travelled extensively and lived for a time in America. He is noted in particular for his cast portrait medallions, taken from life. He died in 1960

Price: $450.00

SKU: 30695-8C

 

1984 (edge stamp), France Africa. The Republic of Congo. PIERRE SAVORGNAN DE BRAZZA, Founder of Brazzaville, Capital of Free France during World War II. By E. Morlaix. Bronze 68mm. $75

Price: $75.00

SKU: 42078-2D

 

1907, France. PAUL PROT. By Ovide Yencesse. Bronze plquette 54mm x 75mm.

Price: $150.00

SKU: 40088-2D

 

1832, Great Britain. CHARLES CALVERT, MEMORIAL. By William Wyon. Silver 44mm. BHM 1569 RR. $250. Sorry, SOLD

Price: $0.00

SKU: 19188-8B

 

1821, France. JEAN-BAPTISTE CANT HANET, called CLÉRY, Valet to Louis XVI. By Du Puymaurin. Copper 52mm. Galerie de la Fidélité. $75

Price: $75.00

SKU: 5513-20009-5C

 

France, World War I. MARSHAL FOCH. Unsigned, uniface cast bronze 161mm (about 6 1/4 inches). $150

Price: $150.00

SKU: 8806-16034-6A

 

1819, Great Britain. JAMES WATT, MEMORIAL. By George Mills. Bronze 46mm. BHM 983. $375. Sorry, SOLD

Price: $0.00

SKU: 7116-19513-10B

 

1843, Great Britain. THE OPENING OF THE THAMES TUNNEL. By J.T. Taylor. White metal 49mm. BHM 2136. $75. Sorry, SOLD

Price: $0.00

SKU: 8503-18493-2B

 

1914, Netherlands. SIESKE. By Johannes-Cornelis Wienecke for the Société Hollandaise/Belge de la Médaille d’Art. Bronze 48mm x 48mm. Buchet & Toussaint 37. $175

Johannes-Cornelis Wienecke was born to Dutch parents in Heilidenstadt, in Saxe-Prussia on March 24 1872. He studied at the Quellinus School in Amsterdam and the Academy of Beaux-Arts in Antwerp. He spent five years in Paris, where he studied at the Acad?mie Julian, the ?cole des Beaux Arts and the Libre Acad?mie Colla Rossi. He worked under Auguste Patey at the Monnaie de Paris. Wienecke returned to the Netherlands and became an engraver, and later head engraver at the Royal Mint in Utrecht. He won the silver medal in sculpture in the Prix de Rome in 1896. He created about three hundred medals over the course of his career, remaining faithful to the art nouveau style he had been introduced to in Paris. Weinecke died at Apeldoorn on November 8 1945.

Price: $175.00

SKU: 8404-16143-2T

 

1909, France. DR. SCHIFFERS. Signed JH. R. Cast bronze plaquette 92mm x 160mm. $600

Price: $600.00

SKU: 3082-12060-1T

 

1885, Great Britain, Germany. MARRIAGE OF PRINCESS BEATRICE AND PRINCE HENRY OF BATTENBERG. By Allan Wyon. Bronze 64mm. BHM 3183, W&E 1510, Eimer 1718. Cased. $300

Price: $300.00

SKU: 63004-JD

 

1822, Great Britain. GEORGE CANNING APPOINTMENT AS FOREIGN SECRETARY. By Bain. Bronze cliché set under glass 55mm. Unrecorded thus. Cf. BHM 1198. $225

Price: $225.00

SKU: 63422-JD

 

1744, Great Britain. Medicine. ROBERT BARKER, Physician. By Antoine Dassier after Jacques-Antoine Dassier. Bronze 55mm. The scarcest medal from the Dassier series of Illustrious Men. Eimer 587, Eisler (2) 295/16, MI II 588/232, Storer 152. $300

Price: $300.00

SKU: 62468-JD

 

1801, Great Britain. LORD KEITH AND THE DEATH OF SIR RALPH ABERCROMBY. By Hancock. Bronze 48mm. BHM 507. $275

Price: $275.00

SKU: 62508-10JD

 

England. ELIZABETH CLEYPOLE, DAUGHTER OF OLIVER CROMWELL. Late 18th century issue by John Kirk after Thomas Simon. Apparently issued for collectors unable to secure Simon’s medal of Elizabeth Claypole. Silver 34mm. MI I 430/75. $500

Price: $500.00

SKU: 62305-JD