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France. PAUL BUQUET – ASSOCIATION AMICALE DES ANCIENS  ÉLÉVES DE L’ ÉCOLE CENTRALE DES ARTS ET MANUFACTURES. By R. Rozet and Frédéric-Charles Victor de Vernon (1858-1912). Bronze 61mm. $75

Price: $75.00

SKU: 63089-2F

 

France. EDOUARD RIST (1871-1956), Physician. By Paul-Marcel Dammann. Bronze 80mm. $250

Paul-Marcel Dammann, sculptor and medallist was born on June 13, 1885, at Montgerm. He studied under Chaplain. In 1908 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome for medal engraving. In 1928 he won a medal of honor at the Salon and was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in the following year. He designed a number of coins for foreign governments. Dammann died in 1939.

Price: $250.00

SKU: 62791-2F

 

1912, Belgium. INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION, BRUSSELS. By Godefroid Devreese. Artist’s proof. Bronze plaquette 48mm x 82mm. $150 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: $150.00

SKU: 63039-2F

 

2005, French South Pacific: 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF INSTITUT D’EMISSION D’OUTRE MER. Bronze 81mm. Two slight edge bumps on the reverse. $100

Price: $100.00

SKU: 63222-2F

 

France. LA PÊCHE (Fishing). By Hélène Guastalla. Bronze 81mm.  Catalogue Générale Illustré vol. 4 872/C. Some insignificant edge nicks. $150 Hélène Guastalla, sculptor and medallist, was born in 1903. She studied under Gimond and was a regular participant in the biennial expositions in Antwerp and in the Salons. Guastalla died in 1983.

Price: $150.00

SKU: 63295-2F

 

1902, Great Britain. CORONATION OF EDWARD VII – R. THORNE & CO, Whisky Distillers. By Frank Bowcher for Spink & Son. Silver 46mm. C&W 4560P/2a described as VR (very rare). $325

Price: $325.00

SKU: 62342-5F

 

1898, France. AGENTS DE CHANGE, PARIS. By Oscar Roty. Bronze 38mm.

Price: $45.00

SKU: 63291-5F

 

1968, France. TRICENTENARY OF THE RETURN OF THE THREE BISHOPS TO FRANCE. By Pierre Turin. Bronze 68mm. $95

Pierre Turin was born in Sucy-en-Brie (Val-de-Marne) on 3 August, 1891. He trained as a steel engraver and became a student at the École Nationale Supèrieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. He studied medal engraving under Henri Auguste Jules Patey and Fréderic-Charles Victor de Vernon. He participated several times in the competition for the Grand Prix de Rome for medal engraving, receiving a deuxième second Grand Prix in 1914, a premier second Grand Prix in 1919 and finally winning the competition in 1920. He had a distinguished career as a medalist and designer of coins.  He is noted for his many works with a bold, Art Deco style, in particular the prize medal from the 1925 Exposition Internationale Des Arts Decoratifs Et Industriels Moderns in Paris. In 1938 he was made a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur. Turin died on July 25, 1968 in Sucy-en-Brie, where he had been born. (An obituary appears in the 1969 issue “Medailles,” published by F.I.D.E.M.)

Price: $95.00

SKU: 62730-5F

 

1930, France. MEETING DES ROUTES PAVÉES – CONCOURS D’ÉLÉGANCE.  By Édouard Fraise. Silvered-bronze plaquette 95mm x 44mm. Cased. $325 Édouard Fraisse was born on May 14, 1880, at Beaune. He studied under Barrias, Coutan, Chaplain and Vernon. Fraisse collaborated with Henry Demey on numerous medals and plaquettes that typically depicted figures in action. He was admitted to the Société des Artistes Français and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français, where he won a gold medal in 1937. He was made a chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur in 1929. Fraisse died in Paris on September 13, 1945

Price: $325.00

SKU: 62667-6F

 

1844, Austria, Judaica. 70TH BIRTHDAY OF SALOMON MAYER VON ROTHSCHILD, Banker.  By Konrad Lange. Gilt bronze 49mm.

Price: $195.00

SKU: 62659-6F

 

1789, France. ARRIVAL OF THE KING AND FAMILY IN PARIS. By B. Duvivier. Copper 53mm.  Hennin 63, Julius 55, Schwering 633. A few light nicks, slight die damage. $175

Price: $175.00

SKU: 62612-6F

 

1786, U.S.A. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. By Auguste Dupré. Copper 47mm. Betts 620. Some slight die flaws. $375

Price: $375.00

SKU: 62636-6F

 

1987, France. LOUIS BRAILLE. By P. Bouret. Bronze 67mm. $60

Price: $60.00

SKU: 64008-6F

 

France. CHARLES RISLER, (1848-1923), Politician, Mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris. By Charles Pillet. Uniface bronze plaquette 53mm x 71mm. $75

Price: $75.00

SKU: 62669-6F

 

1924, France. JEAN COIGNET, President of the Chamber of Commerce, Lyon. By Charles Pillet. Uniface bronze plaquette 68mm x 68mm. $80

Price: $80.00

SKU: 62666-6F