World Historical Medals

Lot 2624    SESSION 9 (4.30PM WEDNESDAY 31ST JULY)    World Historical Medals

Estimate $60
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $80

WORLD MEDALS, France, Agricultural award medal, undated, in bronze (50mm), obverse, goddess facing and holding a torch in her left hand and a laurel wreath in her right extended over a beehive, at her left side a small platform with laurel wreaths on top, reverse, various agricultural products and tools, unnamed; Jubilee Scientist Camille Flammarion a dedication plaque from his Admirers and his Friends, 1911, in bronze (85x80.5mm), uniface, obverse, winged figures at top with one holding a wreath over the facing bust of Flammarion, at the right a building and in left corner a globe; Germany, Salomon Heine Hospital, 19th century, in bronze (22mm), obverse, head of Salomon Heine right, at base a German inscription, translates as, 'Charity is the Crown of all Virtues', reverse, the hospital's fa‡ade and above, in German, translates as, 'Hospital of Israel Community' and with 4-line German inscription below; Italy, World Champion Exhibition in Rome, 1925, in bronze (61mm), obverse, head of goddess Fortuna right, reverse, Mercury sitting on a globe with scroll below, unnamed; also two large brass cast copies of antique European medals. The last two poor - good, the rest fine - good very fine. (6)