HISTORICAL MEDALS - A MISCELLANY
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Please note that medals are offered by Simmons Gallery London subject to being unsold. May 2010 *Click on thumbnails or underlined text for larger photos.* Use your back button on browser to return to this page if clicking on photo doesn't work. |
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Sometimes around the office there are a mixed bunch of medals and in future we'll use this page as the sorting page for such items - all interesting in their different ways but a mix of themes and subjects, artistic styles and periods. Please click on the links below to take you to other pages on the site and more medals and tokens. |
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| Belgium, Peter Paul Rubens by Hart, 19th century design in wood to ressemble wood, 77mm. EF GBP 45 | ||||
| Italy, University of Sienna 700th anniversary, 1240-1940 large, splendidly impressive bronze medal in Italy fascist style issued by Vico Consorti, EF GBP 115 | ||||
| Belgium, Banque de Bruxelles medal for long service (this one for 40 years 1914-1954) 113x58mm bronze by Fisch surface dirt, EF GBP 30 | ||||
Belgium, Nagelmackers Fils et Cie, Liege & Bruxelles 200th anniversary 1747-1947 bronze 68mm. EF GBP 30 Banking and management consultancy. |
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| WWI Field Marshal Sir John French, led the British Expeditionary Force - one of the series by Huguenin (Swiss medallists) to celebrate the chief players on the Western Front. bronze 50mm. gVF GBP 25 | ||||
| Charles Kingsley Centenary Celebration Eversley 1919 pewter medal 29mm. Charles Kingsley - author of The Water Babies and Tales from Shakespeare with his sister, Mary. rare medal by Spink, VF 35 | ||||
| (France) Tobacco - 400th anniversary of Jean Nicot (1561) and 150th anniversary of the monopoly put on Tobacco under Napoleon 1961 MP bronze 68mm. EF GBP 20 | ||||
| Germany Gottfried Keller, writer 1887 by A Bocklin & Anton Scharff, very high relief portrait; rev. Orpheus with his lyre charming the wild beasts of the forest- lions and a rabbit. Bronze 70mm. nEF GBP 85 | ||||
| (Germany ) Goethe portrait medal, mid 20th century, with integral hinged stand, by R Paschold (mid 20th century) base metal 75mm EF GBP 15 | ||||
| Belgium, Banque D'Anvers/Antwerp 1827-1952 by Arthur Dupon, large handsome medal, high relief bronze 81mm. EF GBP 40 | ||||
| Holborn Restaurant view of the restaurant/entertainment and dance venue presented by the proprietors to E C Brace 1896 bronze 69mm. heavy struck medal VF GBP 25 | ||||
| Belgium Compagnie Belge Assurances sur la Vie (Life Insurance) 50th anniversary 1952 Pleeck, Director; by Rau (famous Belgian Art Deco artist - designed the Central metro station) bronze 70mm. EF GBP 35 | ||||
| Poland Millenary, dates 966-1944 (liberation from German occupation)- 1966. PKWN - Polish Committee for National Liberation (Soviet sponsored). Symbolic planting of the tree of state; reverse students, workers and soldiers, references to Soviet leaders. Bronze 69mm. EF GBP 20 | ||||
| High Jump/ Springbok medal by Helene Guastella for the Monnaie de Paris 1974 69mm. EF (photo shows shadows on bright surface) GBP 20 | ||||
| Austro-Hungarian Empire: Funeral of Emperor Franz Josef I, 30 June 1916 2 silvered bronze plaquettes uniface (usually seen as two-sided plaquette - this mode for wall display) 100 x 64mm has been cleaned some time ago, so nEF, GBP 95 | ||||
| Birmingham Chrysanthemum Society bronze 51mm. awarded 1908 EF GBP 20 | ||||
| France, Henri Poincare, Mathematician, Astronomer, Physicist, Philosopher, 1854-1912 homage medal by international subscription 42x44mm original box, by Georges Prudhomme, silver GBP 85 | ||||
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Italy, 1854, Military Academy of Turin medal in honor of Cesare SALUZZO by G Ferraris Bronze medal, very high relief, 65mm. GBP 65 Cesare Saluzzo di Monesiglio was Commandant of the Regia Accademia Militare from 1821 to 1838. |
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| GB, Diocese of Salisbury school medal for a year of unbroken attendance, white metal oval, with partial blue,red,white ribbon. 56x 42mm. GBP 14 | ||||
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19th century "Bonny Baby" Competition winner's medal France, Concours Hygiene de l'Enfance Paris 1892, medaille de 1re classe, named to Theodore Andral, gilt bronze, 35mm. diameter, GBP 15 Note the stress on health and beauty in sturdiness!
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| (Music) First Prize of the "Not Forgotten" Association presented by HRH Princess mary to Elsie Souter Savoy Theatre 28th Nov 1921, open to all contraltos 1921 within wreath on reverse, gilt silver 52mm. GBP 50 | ||||
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Louis Pasteur, 1822-1895 souvenir du centenaire, silver, |
France, Louis Pasteur, small Commemorative medal by G Prudhomme, 1922 for the centenary of Pasteur's birth. 27mm, GBP 15 |
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Sigmund Freud, French series of medals published by Laffont & Tchou by subscription, Les Grandes Decouvertes de la Psychanalyse.
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Sigmund Freud, Large base metal medal, 1939, R Duboc 96mm. GBP 75 | |||
| France, Cholera outbreak Paris 1832 reward medal: Generosite Devouement awarded to JP Martin . Handsome struck bronze medal, 68mm GBP 85 | ||||
| Aviation, Costes & Bellonte Atlantic crossing east-west; commemorative issued by Hispano-Suiza to those who made victory possible September 1930. Map of journey which took almost 3 days. Bronze struck medal 49mm card case GBP 85 | ||||
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