MAILBID 37

A Postal Auction of Medals post 1945

SIMMONS GALLERY

 

CLOSING DATE: Thursday 3 May 2007 At 12 noon BST

 

 

 

 

 

Post 1940 medals chronologically

 

Reserve-estimate 

21.                 

 

Vico Consorti Italy: University of Sienna 700th anniversary, 1240-1940 seated Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II  rev. Romulus and Remus with wolf.  95mm large struck bronze medal neo-Fascist style gEF

 

75-100

22.                

 

Iche France: Jean Cailles, philosophe Mathematique, Heros de la Resistance portrait head only 1903-1944 (the latter date retrograde).  Rev. Herakles fighting the Nemean lion after the antique style with Greek inscription, 73mm. nEF struck without a collar so therefore edge is uneven like a Greek coin.

 

60-100

23.                

 

Turin, Pierre. France: Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein  1946, three-quarters facing portrait with his usual cap and badges of the tank corps, rev. D’Alamein a la Baltique - Gardez Bien, with the family shield of fleur de lis and 2 lions  rampant, struck bronze 68mm  EF

 

45-75

24.                

 

Huguenin Switzerland Ice Hockey Davos 1947 awarded  Hockey s/Glace VII Jeux Mondiaux Universitaires d’Hiver (University Winter Games),  Naked male athlete, 39mm boxed EF

 

25-40

25.                

 

Bazor, Lucien France: 1948 Centenary of Universal Suffrage, Social Legislation and Abolition of Slavery under the French Republic,  68mm. struck bronze EF

 

40-70

26.                

 

M. Uchytilova Kucova Czech Republic:  Jan Masaryik 10 III 1948 In memoriam - his supposed death by suicide (also known as the Third Defenestration as he fell out of a window) is still a matter of controversy.  Foreign Minister of the Czech government in exile in Britain, he retained that position after the war until his death.  68mm   nVF

 

20-35

27.                

 

Dropsy, Henri France: La Reine Elizabeth II - coronation medal for Queen Elizabeth II in silver made in homage by France; portrait of the queen with Windsor Castle on the reverse, 2 juin 1953, silver 50mm slightly tarnished nEF

 

50-80

28.                

 

Barelli Italy:

Leonard Botallo, Anatomist, 1515-1588;

Riunioni Medico Chirurgiche internzionali Torino (Turin) 1954

Medical congress medal.

39mm with hanger by Smit struck bronze gVF small and interesting

 

15-20

29.                

 

LH (Leo Holmgren)

Sweden: 6th FIDEM Congress Stockholm, 9-13 Sept 1955  participants medal issued by the Monnaie Royale de Suede (but in French, one of the official languages of the Int. Federation of the Medal); Nude woman seated cross legged holding up a medal rev. view of the city of Stockholm with sculpture of king Erik IX, patron saint with naked male supporters symbolising the sea and water, struck bronze, 61mm, card box as issued.  EF

 

75-100

30.                

 

Belmondo France  Pechiney centenary of the firm: H Merle A.R.. Pechiney & P Heroult - portrait of the three Chemists/Managers; reverse Hermes with water and lightning bolts, symbolising electrometallurgy (electrolysis) for which it was famous (4th largest producer  of aluminium until taken over by Alcan), 1955, aluminium 68mm. EF

 

30-40

31.                 

 

Belmondo France, another example but this time in plastic, imitating bronze, 68mm.  EF One of the first products was caustic soda.

 

25-30

32.                

 

VDI German Engineering Prize for Merit and Technical expertise, rev. Awarded Georg Dithmer 1956 florid script Silver (.800 on edge), 74mm cast tarnished but still EF

 

45-60

33.                

 

Meszaros, A (Private Mint) Stokes & Sons Pty Ltd 100 years Progress, Melbourne Australia 1956. manufacturers of silverware etc. view of the mint building;  obv.  “Industry is Life “  a worker at the bench with examples of different types of industry in the home, on the land, sea and in the air, in the background –- condition better than VF but impaired patina

 

15-25

34.                

 

De Witt Eleanor Roosevelt, portrait of the US first lady, in a peaked cap - a familiar sight;  rev. a knight on horseback with Bill of Rights on his shield, 80mm struck bronze  EF

 

35-50

35.                

 

Landowski, P France: Federation Nationale des Entreprises a Commerces Multiples National Federation of Large Commercial Businesses.  Manual workers heaving sacks and large blocks of stone with an architect seated lower left.  Rev. different elements of a manufacturing business from design to accounts to sales 79mm struck bronze, thick flan, boxed. Awarded Mme Meroz  Jeanne 1957 EF

 

40-60

36.                

 

Pinches Sailing of the Mayflower II, 1957, ship in full sail with text and shields of UK and US on the reverse, 38mm. EF  scarce

 

15-25

37.                

 

Poland; XXV anniversary of the Liberation of Poland from Germany (1970) with the first line of the nationalist anthem Rota:  Nie Rzucim Ziemi skad Nasz Rod literally ‘We will not abandon the land of our forefathers’ with double-headed eagle reverse.  (Konopnicka's poem came into being as a protest against German oppression of Poles in the German-occupied part of Poland from the late 18th century)  cast bronze, unsigned    95x85mm

 

35-50

38.                

 

E.G. Poland: 70th anniversary of Przypkowski Museum Jedrzejow, 1979); arms of the family of astronomers (with reference to Biblioth. Astronom.  227 anniversary of library of Astronomy; obv. Portrait of Felix Przypkowski, 1872-1951;  boxed, silver 49mm. EF

 

15-20

39.                

 

W. Kowalik (Shipping) Poland Commemorative of  the Stefan Batory ship of the Polski Linie Oceaniczne; 57mm, image of the king of Poland and Transylvania 1576-1586,  struck bronze  1976 EF

 

10-20

40.                

 

Poland: Polanglia:  50 years Poland-UK Lines 1928-1978, issued by Polish Ocean Lines, United Baltic Corporation, for routes between Hull and London to Gdynia.  70mm. silver nEF

 

25-35

41.                 

 

L S Poland Terezin 50th anniversary, 1941-1991, a haunted face surrounded by candles of the menorah, lit in prayer, with guttering wax as tears:  obv. A mass of people trapped by barbs or thorns, very powerful commemorative of the prison and death camp where more than 35,000 Jews were killed.  Struck bronze, 70mm.  EF

 

30-50

42.                

 

G. Colley GB The Great Fire of London, 300th anniversary with a view of the Monument to the event plus the City of London alight;  rev. George and the Dragon with the devise:  All the Burgesses within London - God Keep you 1966. 40mm silver, as struck, original packaging, scarce

 

15-25

43.                

 

G. Colley GB Commemorating the Blitz 25 years ago: airplanes over the City of London: rev. as previous medal, 40mm silver, as struck, original packaging, scarce

 

15-25

44.                

 

Pinches GB 900th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings 1066 - battle scene between axemen and Norman cavalry; rev Norman longship 32mm silver, toned  boxed, exquisite, Unc

 

25-40

45.                

 

P. Vincze Ireland 50th anniversary of the Easter Uprising, Eire, 24th April 1916; portrait of Padraig H Pearse 1879-1916 with on the reverse, the pledge to free Ireland. 38mm silver Unc, box gold embossed.  scarce

 

50-90

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