Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

France, Femmes Prévisionnel, c. 1920, a uniface bronze plaque by P.-C. Lenoir, standing robed female indicating the future to another robed female seated at quay-side, cityscape and mountains in background, exergue named (A M. Albert Mahieu, Senateur, Souvenir reconnaissant de la Mission Canadienne en France, 1923), 148 x 118mm; Fanfare Royale, L’Union de Lorette, 1924, a plated bronze Art Nouveau plaque, unsigned, named (Georges Pardonche), 36 x 22mm; Oeuvre l’Hospitalité, 1939, a plated bronze Art Nouveau plaque, unsigned, 36 x 23mm [3]. Very fine £40-60

Albert Mahieu (1864-1943), politician, served as a senator for the département of Nord from 1924 to 1940 and was briefly Ministre de l’Intérieur in 1932 in André Tardieu’s government