Historical and Art Medals, British and World Coins and Tokens

Austria, Portrait of a Young Girl, 1903, a uniface bronze medal by R. Placht, 64mm (BDM IV, 624); 50th Anniversary of the Death of Friedrich Schiller, 1909, uniface bronze medal by H. Dietrich, 60mm; France, Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, the Launch of the Colombie, plated bronze medal by M. Renard, 58mm; other bronze medals (2). [5]. Mostly about very fine (£30-40)

The work of the Bohemian medallist Richard Placht was much admired by Forrer, who referred to his Portrait of a Young Girl as “a very pretty study”