Lot Archive

Lot

№ 728

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28 June 1995

Hammer Price:
£65

United States of America, United States of America, Centenary of the Birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1907, bronze medal by B. L. Pratt, bust three-quarters left, reverse legend, 63mm (Baxter [The Beaux Art Medal in America] 218). Extremely fine, an excellent portrait medal by this eminent New England scuptor (£20-30)

Bela Lyon Pratt (1867-1917), pupil of Saint-Gaudens, and of Falguiere at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris