World Historical Medals
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Lot 1902 SESSION 8 (2.30PM WEDNESDAY 27TH JULY) World Historical Medals
Estimate $100
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SOLD $90
ITALY, Umberto I, 1889, in gilt (22mm), pierced hole at top and bottom; Gymnastic Competition medal, in silver (25mm), ring top suspension, reverse inscribed, 'Societa Ginn/R.Rubattino/1894' (see footnote); Summer Colonies of the Fasci Abroad, 1930, in bronze (25.5mm), ring top suspension, obverse, head of Mussolini left; Municipality of Faenza, Merit Medal in white metal (37mm), by Speranza (2); Operaja Company, Cerbaia in Val de Pesa, Social Security and Work medal, in silvered (28mm), ring top suspension; Feast of Freshmen, Padua, 10 February Year XIII, in bronze (30mm), by Volpi XIII, ring top suspension; G.U.F. L'Aquila, sporting medal, undated, in enamel and silvered (30x40mm), suspension lug (some loss of enamel); also France, UTA, French Airlines, in white metal (35mm), ring top suspension. Fine - good very fine. (9)
Note: Societa Ginn(astic) R. Rubattino was the Raffaele Rubattino Gymnastics Society, an Italian sporting society started at Genoa on 1 June 1894.
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