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109 Wilhelm Richard Wagner
(1813-1883), Silvered Electrotype Plaquette, undated, by Franz Xaver Pawlik, bust
left in medallic roundel, a naked Siren to the right reaches up to play a harp, 126mm x 91mm (Ni 2222);
together with the smaller Bronze Plaquette, 60mm x 45mm. First very fine, second better. (2)
£80-120
A wonderfully secessionist ‘Art Nouveau’ image.
110 Wilhelm Richard Wagner
(1813-1883), Portrait Medals (6), Silver (5), 72mm, 40mm, 34mm, 29mm and 12.5mm
(this uniface) and Bronze (72mm), [1902], by Rudolf Mayer, bust left wearing cloth beret, rev the Valkyreis
with captives, ride away (Ni 2213); Bronze Medal, [1904], by Paul Sturm (also numbered
OP[VS] LVIII
), head
right, three Rhine Maidens, 77mm (Ni 2245). Very fine and better. (7)
£100-150
111 Wilhelm Richard Wagner
(1813-1883), Silver Medals (7), by Anton Scharff (3), [1876], for the Bayreuth
Festival, head right, rev three musical muses, 53.5mm (Ni 2227); smaller [1882], head right within raised
border, rev scene from Parsifal, 37.5mm (Ni 2232); and smaller variety, 29mm (Ni 2233); Berlin Festival,
1898, bust left, rev musical emblems, 50mm (Ni -); Smaller Medals, by Lauer (2), both 27mm (Ni 2182, 2204),
and R Mayer, 9mm (Ni 2214). Very fine to extremely fine. (8)
£80-120
112 Wilhelm Richard Wagner
(1813-1883), Silver Plaquettes (2), by Lauer, bust right, 60mm x 40mm (Ni 2193); by
Mayer and Wilhelm [1903], bust left, 51mm x 39mm (Ni 2216); Silver Medals (3), undated, by Anton Grath,
bust left, rev two curving olive trees, 60mm (Ni 2164); 1913, by Max Olofs, head right, rev a layered fountain,
30mm (Ni 2219); 1933, by Fritz Hornlein, head left, rev olive spray, 38mm (Ni 2170); by E Torff, rev musical
score, 29mm (Ni 2247 - not recorded this diameter). Extremely fine or nearly so. (5)
£70-90
The reverse of the third in the Art Nouveau style.
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113 Wilhelm Richard Wagner
(1813-1883), Bronze Plaquette, 1913, by E Torff, bust left in roundel, music score
below, rev the Holy Grail within vaulted church, 90mm x 64mm (Ni 2249); others (2), by F Stiasny, bust right,
rev
of one fitted with stand and inscribed for performances at the Bayreuth Festival on the 4
th
and 8
th
August,
1912, 65mm x 58mm (Ni 2242); and uniface Bronze Medal, also Stiasny, bust left, 90mm (Ni 2243); smaller
Plaquettes (2), by Mayer and Wilhelm, 50mm x 39mm (Ni 2217), and [1904] by O Yencesse, 42mm x 55mm;
Parsifal
performed in Brussels, Bronze Medal, 1914, by G Devreese, Parsifal stands with grail, rev dancing
maidens, 75mm (Ni 2152). Very fine and better. (7)
£100-150
114 Wilhelm Richard Wagner
(1813-1883), Bronze Medal, 1913, by Karl Goetz, bust three-quarters left wearing
cloth cap, rev the emblems of Parsifal, 81mm (Ni 2158; Kienast 30); Bronze Plaquette, by Heinrich Kautsch,
bust left in roundel, 70mm x 45mm (Ni 2177); small Plaquette, 1909, by Stolzer (for Mayer and Wilhelm), bust
three-quarters right in roundel, 51mm x 38mm; others (3), by Stiasny, Mayer and Wilhelm, and Yencesse, as
in the previous lot. Mostly extremely fine. (6)
£120-150
115 Wilhelm Richard Wagner
(1813-1883), Bronze Medal, 1913, by Karl Goetz, similar to previous lot, bust three-
quarters left wearing cloth cap, rev the emblems of Parsifal, 81mm (Ni 2158; Kienast 30); the Wartburg Festival,
1913, Silver Medals (3), by Karl Goetz, bust three-quarters left, rev the castle (Ni 2159; Kienast 320); Wagner
and Ludwig II, king of Bavaria, busts side by side, rev the Neuschwanstein Castle (Ni 2160; Kienast 488); 50
th
Anniversary of death, 1933, head left, maiden holds skull (Ni 2161; Kienast 482); and a striking in bronze
of Ni 2160, all 46mm; uniface Bronze Plaquette, by Franz Xaver Pawlik, medallic bust left, to right a naked
female playing a harp placed above her, 126mm x 91mm (Ni 2221). Extremely fine. (5)
£100-150
The plaquette in the Secessionist / Art Nouveau style
116 Wilhelm Richard Wagner
(1813-1883), Copper Medal, undated, by Leopold Wiener, head right, rev a group of
figures from Wagner’s operas gathered around a bridge marked
BAYREUTH
, 71mm (Ni 2259); The Walhalla,
1859, by Jacques Wiener, exterior and interior views, 59mm (Eidlitz 104/626); the first performance of “Der
Ring des Nibelungen” in French, at the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, Copper Medal, 1903, by P
Braecke, a Valkyrie to left, head and shoulders, rev decorative legend, 59mm. This a superb ‘Art Nouveau’
medal, all extremely fine or nearly so
. (3)
£120-150
117 Wilhelm Richard Wagner
(1813-1883), a good group of Copper/Bronze Medals (12), by Lauer, 50mm; by
Drentwett, 41mm, thick and thin flan, and in Pewter; by Anton Scharff and Semper, 36mm; smaller (8). Very
fine and better
. (12)
£80-120
118 Wilhelm Richard Wagner
(1813-1883), a good group of White and Base-metal Medals (18), including Leopold
Wiener’s Medal, 71mm (Ni 2259); others include a squeeze or trail and a medal of the Walhalla. Generally very
fine
. (18)
£80-100
119 Wilhelm Richard Wagner
(1813-1883), Bronze Medals (3), [1913], by Wilhelm Götze, bust left within raised
border, rev Orpheus standing naked, 83mm (Ni 2163); 1913, by M Schlofhorst, bust left, rev legend, music and
signature, 82mm (Ni 2234), 1933, by Hermann Wernstein, bust three-quarters left, rev legend in four lines,
79mm (Ni 2258). Second very fine, other two better. (3)
£70-90
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