Auction Catalogue

31 January 1996

Starting at 2:00 PM

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British and World Coins, Medals, Tokens and Numismatic Books

The Charing Cross Hotel  The Strand  London  WC2N 5HX

Lot

№ 257

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31 January 1996

Hammer Price:
£35

FRANCE, Exposition Universelle, 1900, bronze award medal by J.C. Chaplain, named (A.F. Gips), 64mm (PBE 81; BDM I, 404), extremely fine, loosely mounted in an open-fronted wooden frame with loop for suspension; Associations Agricoles, bronze award medal by A. Dubois, named (Dr. van Bergen), 50mm (BDM I, 632); other un-named Agricultural prize medals in bronze (3), all c.1900, by A.A.P. Massoulle for A. Desaide, 46mm; by A. Rivet, 40mm (BDM V, 136); and by R. Saint-Loup, 36mm. [5]. Last four very fine (£30-50)

The medallic work of André Arthur Paul Massoulle (1852-1901), a sculptor from Epernay, is seldom met with