British and World Historical Medals

Italy, 25th Anniversary of the Founding of the Kingdom of Italy, 1895, a plated pewter medal by Marcelle Crocé-Lancelot, conjoined busts of Victor Emanuel II and Umberto I right, rev. two robed figures embracing, soldiers in front of buildings in background, 60mm (Coll. R. Marx 393, this piece; BDM III, 286, and VII, 530, this piece listed). Scratch on face of Victor Emanuel and test cut on obverse edge at 12 o’clock, otherwise about very fine and very rare; with the reversed rm monogram of Marx stamped below the legend in the exergue on the reverse £40-60

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the Revd. John Watson.

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Provenance: R. Marx Collection, Victor Canale Auction (Paris), 22-3 June 1914, lot 393; DNW Auction 35, 3 April 1998, lot 626