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Updated February 2010. Please note
that medals are offered by Simmons Gallery London subject to being unsold
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These medals are the products of various mints: French
Monnaie de Paris and Israel Mint products,Medallic Art Co. New York,
Leningrad Mint plus a few older pieces and Royal Mint issues. They are
mainly as issued but secondhand - we've indicated the grade where it
is otherwise than extremely fine. This is part of our accumulation of
such medals; they are an inexpensive way of owning some very interesting
portraits and interpretations of the work of famous artists, scientists
and politicians.
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France. Abbe de l'Epee
1712-1789, 40mm. by Duvivier, 1801 hommage by B Duvivier as an educator
and developer of sign language for the deaf. gVF £40
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France. Abbe
de l'Epee 1712-1789,
Paris 1971 VI Congres Mondial des Sourds (Congress for the Deaf); Eiffel
Tower reverse. Large Base metal medal given by Laboratoire de Correction
Auditive. 70mm., Boxed £32 |
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USA, Apollo 14
space flight 5-6 1971, 34 hours on the Moon, heavy silver medal by Ralph Menconi for Presidential
Art Medals, struck by Medallic Art Co. NY - Shepard, Roosa and Mitchell,
63mm. £50 |
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USA, Apollo
XIII space flight 1970 heavy silver medal by Ralph Menconi for Presidential
Art Medals, struck by Medallic Art Co. NY - Swigert, Lovell and Haise, astronauts
on that ill-fated flight. 63mm. £50 |
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Poland, Stefan
Bathory liner of the Polskie
Linie Oceaniczne; a Hungarian prince of Transylvania who became King
of Poland through marriage.1576-1586; bronze 60mm. £20 |
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France, Jean-Baptiste
Colbert minister of finance under Louis XIV, 20th century restrike
of 1674 medal, the griffin preserving the fruits of prosperity. 62mm. £30 |
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Dubai, HH
Sheikh Rashid bin Said Al-Maktoum, ruler of Dubai; Dubai Inter Continental
1975 - medal for opening of hotel. base metal 51mm. £20 |
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(Ireland), Bob Geldof,
an Italian FAO fundraising issue, featuring one of the organisers of Live
Aid for Africa; bronze 50mm, boxed, no. 47 in the edition, £20 |
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Netherlands, Van Gogh
(issued by the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) selfportrait of the artist/signature
facsimile, 50mm. base metal, boxed, £15 |
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| RUSSIAN 20th
CENTURY ART MEDALS: |
In general terms the Russian medals are made
of bronze base metal, measure 60mm in diameter, 5mm-8mm approx. thick, mainly
from the Leningrad/St Petersberg Mint. |
They date from the period 1960's-1990's. So
you have here some nicely made, chunky struck medals in extremely fine condition. |
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Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin,
Russian painter and writer, early works were dreamlike, influenced
by icon paintings. £20 |
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Vasily Bazhenov,
architect of the Russian State Library, graphic artist, 1727-1799 £15 |
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Korzuchin,
Russian painter, d. 1894, most famous for Day of the Parting and
other realist sentimental works £20 |
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Charles de Coster,
1827-1879 Belgian francophone poet - wrote Till Eulenspiegel,
in praise of liberty which was made into a film 1977 by Soviet film-makers
Alov & Naoumov.£20 |
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Thomas Gainsborough,
English painter £18 |
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Lenin, 1917-1987 70th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, typical Soviet medal
£30 |
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Mulokhov-Maklay,
anthopologist, naturalist; studied Papua New Guinea. Founder of the
First Australian Maritime Biological Centre £35 |
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Emmerich Kalman,
Hungarian composer of operettas (often linked with Lehar), composed the
Gay Hussars £20. |
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Tretyakov
- founder of the Russian and international art gallery and museum of
the same name in Moscow £20 |
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Gustave Flaubert, French 19th century novelist, author of Madame Bovary £20 |
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John Milton,
English author of Paradise Lost £20 |
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Ibsen,
Norwegian playwright and dramaturge, creator of Peer Gynt. £20 |
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Voltaire,
18th century leading thinker & philosopher of the Enlightenment. £20 |
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Moliere,
aka Jean Baptiste Poquelin, 17th century French dramatist and comic
genius £20 |
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