A Collection of Railway Medals

Liquidation of the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de l’Ouest, 1909, a plated bronze medal after J.J. Barré, 1830s locomotive right, rev. legend, 46mm (Moyaux 272B; cf. Swan 289); Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de l’Est, c.1910, silver medals (2), by F.-C.-V. de Vernon, female allegorical figure riding on buffers of a steam locomotive, rev. train emerging from a tunnel into a landscape, 40mm (Moyaux 277bis; PBE 984; BM Acq. 1983-7, p.26, 159; cf. Swan 290-1; cf. DNW 51, 1157) [3]. Very fine or better (£90-120)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Railway Medals.

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The obverse is based on Barré’s 1835 medal for the opening of the railway from Paris to Saint-Germain