RUSSIA
Anna Davia [D’Avia] Bernucci
(1743-1810), see Italy
188 190
188 Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
(1804-1857), composer, Copper Medal, by A Aleksieff, bust left, rev statue, 51mm
(Ni 696); Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein (1829-1894), pianist, composer and conductor, Silver Medal, 1894, by
A Griliches, 25mm, suspension loop (Ni 1733); Copper Medal, 1889, by Vagenine, bust left, rev lyre in wreath,
77mm (Ni 1736); Bronze Plaquette, 1904, by Mayer & Wilhelm, 51mm x 39mm (Ni 1735); Feodor Ivanovich
Schalyapin
(1873-1938), opera singer, Bronze Plaquette, by Jan Simonoff, half-length figure, head facing, 91mm
x 63mm (Ni 1767); Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (1882-1971), composer, Bronze Medal, 1955, by Renée Vautier,
head three-quarters left, rev lyre-bird before music score, 67mm (Ni 1992). Extremely fine. (6)
£80-100
Glinka - “the father of Russian classical music”. Between 1910-1920 Stravinsky lived in Switzerland, then moved to France from where,
in 1939, he moved on again to the USA to escape the German invasion. He lived in America until his death, returning only once to Russia
in 1962. He is buried in Venice.
189 Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky
(1840-1893), composer, Silver Presentation Medal of the “Société Musicale de la
Trompette fondé l’Ecole Polyteche en 1861”, by C Degeorge 1884, and dedicated in a tablet “
AU MAITRE
TCHAIKOWSKI SOUVENIR DU 16 MARS 1888 / E. LEMOINE
”, a winged muse floats in the sky playing a lyre,
rev
a symmetrical display of musical emblems supporting the tabled with, in the exergue, military trophies,
50mm (Ni 2023; BDM I, 543). Extremely fine and lightly toned.
£1500-2000
Charles Jean Marie Degeorge (1837-1888), medallist, born Lyon.
190 Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky
(1840-1893), uniface Bronze Plaquette, by Jan Simonoff, half-length bust (perhaps as
seated at piano), to right, 90mm x 62mm (Ni 2028). Extremely fine.
£50-80
Mikhail Saulovich ‘Mischa’ Elman
(1891-1967), see lot 145
SOUTH AMERICA
191 Antonio Carlos Gomez
(1839-1936), Brazilian composer, Bronze Plaquette, by P F Berthoud, bust left, rev
legend, above lyre and masks, 74mm x 54mm (Ni 723); and smaller medals (3) (Ni 726, 727, 728); Artur
Napoleào
(1843-1925), Brazilian composer, non-portrait Medals (3), Silver (2) and Bronze, 35mm, 40mm (Ni
1497, 1498, 1499); Carlos Mesquita (1864-1953), Brazilian composer, non portrait Copper Medals (2); and
Maria Mesquita, Silver Medal, 40mm and 31mm (Ni 1320, 1321, 1323); Maurice Dengremont (1866-1893),
Brazilian violinist, non-portrait Medal, 31mm (Ni 544); Aquiles Rossi-Ghelli, Chilean composer, Copper
Medal, 1869, by Juan Bainville, bust three-quarters right, rev musical emblems, 59mm (Ni 1691); Reynaldo
Hahn
(1874-1947), Venezuelan composer, Bronze Medal, 68mm (Ni 849). Very fine and better. (13)
£80-100
SPAIN
192 193
192 Francisco Asenjo Barbieri
(1823-1894), opera composer, non-portrait Medal, legend both sides, 42mm (Ni
84); Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908), violin virtuoso, Bronze Plaquette, 1905, by Friedrich Kounitzky, bust,
turned facing, holding bow, 85mm x 79mm (Ni 1755); Medalets (2) (Ni 1756, 1757); Ricardo Vines (1876-
1943), pianist, shaped rectangular Bronze Plaquette, by Charpentier-Beetz, bust left, a fine sculptural image,
63.5mm x 55mm (Ni -). Very fine and better. (5)
£50-80
193 Pablo Cassals
(1876-1973), Catalan cellist, Bronze Plaquette, by Jules Muranyi, half-length figure to right,
playing, 71mm x 51.5mm (Ni 460), softly sculpted; and a modern medal of Bach, 1950, rev bust of Cassals,
59mm (Ni 63). Extremely fine. (2)
£50-80
SWEDEN
194 Per Frigel
(1750-1842), composer, Secretary to the Music Academy, Copper Medal, 1841, by M Frumerie, bust
right, rev legend, 41mm (Ni 659); Bernard Henrik Crusell (1775-1858), clarinettist and composer, Copper
Medal, by C C Mellgren, 41mm (Ni 528); Erik Gabriel von Rosén (1775-1886), organist, Copper Medal, 1861,
by J Ericsson, head right, rev legend, 41mm (Ni 1687); Erik Gustav Geljier (1783-1847), composer, Copper
medal, C M Mellgreen, head right, 41mm (Ni 680); Johann Mazer (1790-1847), amateur chamber musician,
Copper Medal, signed PL, 32mm (Ni 1285); Christine Nillson (1843-1921), singer, Bronze Medals (2), by
E Lindberg, 50mm (Ni 1523); Norway, Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907), composer and pianist, modern
French Medal, by A Dahl, c.1960’s, 68mm (Ni 761). Very fine and better. (8)
£80-100
195 Jenny [Johanna Maria] Lind
(1820-1887), opera singer known as “The Swedish Nightingale”, large Copper
Medal, 1848, by P H Lundgren and C C Quanström, bust left, rev figures at monument, border of musical
emblems, 78mm (Ni 1085), nearly extremely fine; another, Silvered White Metal, 1846, by Allen & Moore, facing
bust, 55mm (Ni 1086); smaller Copper variety, 22mm (Ni 1091); medalets (6), very fine. (9)
£60-80
196 Jenny [Johanna Maria] Lind
(1820-1887), Medals (2), by Carl Radnitzky, White Metal, 1850, head left, legend
(in English),
SUCH A SACRED … DELIGHT …
[Milton], 40mm (Ni 1088); Copper, 1857, head left, rev legend
below swan emblem, 45mm (Ni 1087). Extremely fine. (2)
£40-60
SWITZERLAND
197 Johann Jakob Spreng
(1699-1768), Poet, White Metal Memorial Medal, by Samson, bust right, rev lyre against
altar, 42mm (Ni 1926), very fine; Leonhard Paul Euler (1707-1783), mathmetician and physicist, Silver Medal,
by Abramson, head left, rev emblems of mathmatics and science,
RADI DESCRIBIT ORBEM
, 42mm (Ni 618);
Edouard Pierre Wolfe
(1809-1882), Geneva Conservatory, presentation Copper Medal of the “Cercle des
Artistes”, 1872, city arms, rev legend, 48mm (Ni 2335); Dr Karl Attenhoffer (1837-1914), Silver Medal, by G
Hantz, 37mm, extremely fine. (3)
£70-90
Euler was interested in the application of mathematical ideas in music and in 1739 he published Tentamen Novae Theoriae Musicae, in the
hope of incorporating musical theory as part of mathematics. The project was described as “too mathematical for musicians and too
musical for mathematicians”.
198 Joseph Bovet
(1879-1951), composer and choral conductor, by A Claraz, 69mm (Ni 387); Alfred Denise Cortot
(1877-1962), pianist and conductor, oval cast Bronze Plaquette, 1927, by Beetz-Charpentier, bare head right,
69mm x 62mm (Ni 519); Gustave Doret (1866-1943), composer, by Peka, for Galli, 50mm (Ni 572); Henri
Gagnebin
(1886-1977), Belgian-born composer, uniface Bronze Medal, 1946, by Max Weber, 53mm (Ni 672);
Arthur Honegger
(1892-1955), composer, Bronze Tribute Medal, undated, by Anna Bass, head left, rev face of
Antigone and notes below, 68mm (Ni 928). Second extremely fine, others nearly so. (5)
£80-100
Cortot worked in France, founding the École Normale de Musique de Paris in 1919, but later he seemingly supported the German
occupation for which he was punished. Honegger was a railway enthusiast and this was demonstrated in his “mouvement symphonique”
Pacific 231, a depiction of a steam locomotive. Honegger’s portrait was depicted on the 1996 Swiss 20-Franc note.
199 Ignaz Heim
(1818-1880), choral composer, Copper Medal, by B Jackle, bust three-quarters right, 48.5mm (Ni
907); other Copper Medals, Johann Bernhard Kaupert (1786-1863), choral director and composer, by Lander,
head left, 43mm; Hans Georg Naegeli (1773-1836), composer and arranger, by Sebald and Drentwett, head
left, 41mm (Ni 1492), others (3), Copper, 35mm, White metal, 41mm, Brass, 28mm (Ni 1497, 1493, 1494);
Sigismund Thalberg
(1812-1871), piano virtuoso and composer (2), by Faria and Lüster bust and head left,
60mm (Ni 2008, 2009), and by O Steinböck, head right, 56mm (Ni 2010); Felix von Weingartner (1865-1942),
Dalmatian born conductor, died in Winterthur, uniface, by Stephan Schwartz, 76mm (Ni 2309). Extremely fine
or nearly so
. (10)
£80-120
BRITISH COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS
Other Properties
200 Jacobite,
Arrival of the Young Pretender Expected
1745, Silver Medal, probably by Thomas Pingo,
bust of Prince Charles right, rev Britannia standing
at the shore awaiting the arrival of a fleet,
AMOR
ET SPES
(MI II 600/251). Minor light marks, toned,
good very fine.
£250-300
201
Simons de Passe Counters (8), depicting British
monarchs, Edward III, Henry I, Henry II, Henry
III, Henry VI, Mary (2), Charles I. Fair to very fine.
(8)
£80-100
202 George IV,
Geroge Prince Regent, Chronology of
the Sovereigns of England, Copper Box Medal,
47mm, containing black and white line drawing
portraits of the Sovereigns. Very fine.
£150-200
203
The Duke of Wellington’s Continental Victories, Box
Medal, Copper 47mm, containing a complete set
of the 14 paper disks inscribed with the names and
dates of Wellington’s victories, uniformed bust of the
Duke of Wellington left, rev inscription in wreath,
BY
HIS CONSUMATE SKILL…
(BHM 885). Some disks still
attached by silk, extremely fine.
£180-220
(image reduced)
204 Sport, Fencing
, Henry Arthur Colmore-Dunn
(1859-1896), Bronze Medal, 1896, unsigned,
bust left, rev legend within wreath,
FORTIS VIR
SAPIENSQVE …
, 76mm. Extremely fine.
£70-90
Colmore-Dunn was a member of the London Fencing Club and
the author of a number of standard works on Fencing. On the
medal he is depicted wearing his high collared fencing jacket.
He was, however, an all-round sportsman, an exhibitioner at
New College, Oxford, where he stroked of the college eight
and, in 1880, performed in Frank [Sir Francis Robert] Benson’s
production of Agamemnon in Greek, playing Ægisthus in this
first production of Aeschylus for 2000 years (Benson played
Orestes and, in a nicely Oedipal piece of casting, his wife was
Clytemnestra. Further biographical details sold with the lot.
The medal is unsigned but in previous listings Sir George
Frampton has been suggested as the medallist.
205
George V, official large Silver Jubilee Medal, 1935,
by Percy Metcalfe, 57mm, in case of issue; small
silver official Coronation Medals (2), 1902, 1937,
in envelope and box respectively. Virtually as
struck
. (3)
£30-50
WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS
FRANCE
206
Antoine Masson (1636-1700), sculptor, engraver
(mainly portraits), Engraver to the King and
member of the Royal Academy, uniface cast Bronze
Portrait Medal, 1689, by Thomas Bernard, bust
right with flowing hair, 56mm. Light patination,
very fine and small piercing at top, rare
.
£80-120
ex Charles Avery collection, Morton & Eden auction, 21 May 2003
207
France, Gustav Delory (1857-1925), politician and
[1896], the first Socialist Mayor of Lille, a large
circular memorial Bronze Medallic Wall-plaque,
1926, by Ch Caby, bust left, name and dates
around, 355mm. As made.
£40-60
Not suitable for Postage / Shipping. Buyer must make
arrangements for collection.
GERMANY
208
Klaus Lankheit (1913-1992), Professor and Doctor,
scholar, art historian and numismatist, collector of
Baroque Medals, patinated Bronze Medal on his 70
th
birthday, 1983, by H Baumstark, bust three-quarters
right, rev legend in 18 lines listing his publications,
68mm (cf Peus 368, 3509). Very fine.
£40-80
only 22 specimens struck
Lanheit’s own specimen, ex Charles Avery collection, Morton
& Eden auction, 21 May 2003 (lot 801)
209
Bavarian Silver Box Thaler 1914-1916, bust of
Ludwig III left, rev arms of Bavaria, the medal
containing colour illustrations on card roundals
commemorating events and German personalities
in the First World War, 52mm, in original mauve
card box of issue. Box Thaler, roundals and card box
in mint state.
£120-150
210
Bavarian Silver Box Thaler 1914-1916, bust of
Ludwig III left, rev arms of Bavaria, the medal
containing colour illustrations on card roundals
commemorating events and German personalities
in the First World War, 52mm, in original beige
card box of issue and issue certificate no.38849.
Some staining on the Box Thaler, otherwise all parts
mint state.
£120-150
211
Box Coins, Twopence 1797, Penny 1806, together
with medallic sweet box with portrait of Prince
Albert. Fair to fine. (3)
£40-60
MILITARY-RELATED
212
1914-15 STAR (7699 Sjt:W. V. Payne. S.Gds.)
officially impressed. A few scratches to reverse,
otherwise extremely fine.
£20-40
bought Baldwin’s, July 1939
213
ARMY LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT
MEDAL
, 1830-1831, 1
st
type with steel clip and
small ring suspension (*James . . . . . ell. Scots
Fusilier . . . .1833.*
) officially impressed. Some
edge bruising, overall wear and significant marks to
reverse, good fine.
£200-300
214
World War I, Campaigns against France, Russia,
England, Japan and the USA, cliché-type Bronze
Plaquette, by M&W, dated 1914, but on account
of the legend c.1917, an infantry charge, 53mm x
67mm. Very fine.
£30-50
Military Headdress Badges and other Insignia
215
CANADIAN REGIMENT (CEF)
, brass die-stamped
General Service Badge, maple leaf with central
crown, ‘Canada’ named below, with original
brass loop fasteners and pin; small Canadian
collar badge of similar design with original loop
fasteners. Very fine. (2)
£20-30
216
BLACK WATCH (THE 42
nd
ROYAL HIGHLANDERS),
white metal die-stamped glengarry badge, c1887-
1901, star with thistle sprays surrounding central
section bearing crowned insignia ‘The Royal
Highlanders’ above and ‘Black Watch’ below,
St Andrew facing holding his cross, regimental
motto around, sphinx below, original copper
loop fasteners and pin, good very fine;
HIGHLAND
LIGHT INFANTRY
, small headdress badge pre
1889, star, bugle and elephant below, extremely
fine
;
LOTHIAN AND BORDER HORSE
, three small
insignia, extremely fine. (5)
£40-60
217
ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS
, white
metal die-stamped glengarry badge, large thistle
sprays with crowned insignia of the Argylls’
boar’s head left and lion sejant erect left, original
copper loop fasteners;
THE BORDER REGIMENT
,
small white metal die-stamped glengarry badge,
crowned star with laurel wreath set in the
background, two soldered copper loop fasteners;
a smaller white metal die-stamped collar badge of
similar design, although without star and crown,
with two loop fasteners, very fine;
SCOTS GUARDS
,
gilt brass die-stamped pouch badge, thistle style
star with central circular emblem with thistle,
four loop fasteners on reverse, and a small collar
badge. Good very fine. (5)
£60-80
218
NORFOLK REGIMENT
, two white metal and bronze
die-stamped cap badges, laureate border with
Britannia seated left with trident and shield holding
olive branch with bronze banner below ‘The
Norfolk Regt’, original copper loop fasteners on
both;
DUKE OF WELLINGTON’S REGIMENT (WEST
RIDING)
, white medal and bronze die stamped
cap badge, lion rampant bearing flag with crown
and regimental motto beneath, ‘The West Riding’
in copper banner below, with original copper
loop fasteners;
SOUTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT
(THE PRINCE OF WALES’ VOLUNTEERS)
, white
metal and bronze die-stamped cap badge, bronze
encircling wreath and banner ‘South Lancashire’
above and ‘Prince of Wales’s Vols’ below, bearing
central white metal insignia of three plumes and
bronze crown, with regimental motto and sphinx
with ‘Egypt’ beneath, two soldered loop fasteners.
Very fine.
(4)
£40-60
219
Diestamped headdress badges (4),
GORDON
HIGHLANDERS
, white metal,
SCOTTISH RIFLES (THE
CAMERONIANS)
, silver,
SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS
(2), white metal. Extremely fine. (4)
£60-80
220
GRENADIER GUARDS
, brass valise badges (2),
crowned Garter with VR monogram within.
About extremely fine, rare
. (2)
£60-80
221
ROYAL FLYING CORPS
, brass cap badge and
button, about very fine; other small insignia (9),
including
YORK & LANCASTER REGIMENT, EAST
SURREY REGIMENT, DEVONSHIRE REGIMENT,
SOMERSETSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY
, generally very
fine
. (11)
£70-90
222
H
EAddREss
bAdGEs
(4),
10
TH
ROYAL HUssARs,
dUKE OF CORNWALL’s LIGHT INFANTRY, KING’s
sHROPsHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY
ANd
dORsETsHIRE
REGIMENT
. E
xtrEmEly
finE
.
(4)
£50-70
223
Headdress badges (4),
ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE
REGIMENT, NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILEERS, EAST
LANCASHIRE REGIMENT
and
XVIII HUSSARS,
PRINCESS OF WALES’ OWN REGIMENT
. Very fine.
(4)
£40-60
224
Collar dogs and other small insignia (13), various
regiments including
1
ST
KING’S DRAGOON
GUARDS, ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT and
THE ROYAL WEST SURREY REGIMENT
. Very fine or
better
. (13)
£60-80
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