Lot 1902

Description

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.