France. POIDS ET HALTÉRES. By Pierre-Alexandre Morlon (1878-1951). Bronze 51mm x 54mm. In a slightly damaged cardboard box. $75. Sorry, SOLD (July, 2020).

Pierre-Alexandre Morlon (1878-1951) was born at Mâcon. He initially worked under his father, a marble worker, but later moved to Paris, where he studied under the sculptors Alexandre Falguière and Claude Antoine Mercié. He became a regular exhibitor at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français. He produced several war memorials following World War I and is noted, among medal collectors, for his medals related to World War I. Morlon designed an effigy of Marianne in a Phrygian cap, which was used on the fifty centime, one franc and two-franc coins from 1931 until 1959. He also designed coins for Uruguay. He was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 1927. He died at Houdan on February 24, 1951.