Ancient, Celtic, British and World Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

WORLD ART MEDALS France, Jul & Lud Jeanbernat Barthelemy de Ferrari Doria, silver memorial medal by Gustave Martin, 1918, conjoined uniformed busts left, reverse arms, 71mm. About extremely fine, rare (£40-50)

Martin, Gustave Joseph Martin (fl. c.1890 - ?), sculptor and modeller in wax. This artist appears to be have made few medals. None of his work appeared in the important 1967 Paris exhibition “La Médaille en France de Ponscarme à la fin de la Belle Époque”; nor is he found in CGMP. He is noted by Forrer (BDM III, p. 595) on the basis of wax medallions exhibited at the salons of the last decade of the 19th Century.