British and World Historical Medals

United States of America, Charles Lindbergh, c. 1930, a uniface plated bronze plaque signed O.W. for Fisch, bust right, 63 x 50mm, back engraved (à Monsieur Darsac, rédacteur en chef du Soir, avec tous les remerciements de M. Wolf et O. Neuman), 63 x 51mm (cf. DNW 64, 1473). Extremely fine and rare, a powerful Art Déco image £100-150

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

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Provenance: DNW Auction 42, 8 September 1999, lot 1294.

Auguste d’Arsac (1856-1937), editor-in-chief of the Brussels newspaper Le Soir, began his career in Nice on a satirical paper and fled to Brazil to escape a fine and 5-year prison sentence. Returning to Europe he was forced to move to Belgium and joined Le Soir in Brussels in 1888. His paper took a very anti-German stance in 1914 and he and his staff were lucky to escape Brussels when Belgium was invaded, he himself spending the War as a refugee in Italy. He also used the pseudonym Piccolo and has a minor planet named after him