Catalogue
Medals of the Italian Baroque, Queen Christina of Sweden, cast bronze medal (58 mm), obv. laureate and draped bust of Christina right, REGINA CHRISTINA around, rev. radiant sun, NEC FALSO NEX ALIENO above. Extremely fine.
Estimate $300
SOLD $180
Sweden, Jenny Lind, 1848, in bronze (78 mm) by Lundgren (AC 173). Extremely fine.
Estimate $500
SOLD $600
USA, Temperance Society Statement 1834, white metal (43mm) by Davis, obv. standing man with "TEMPERANCE" on shield and chained drunkard seated on rock behind, rev. twenty-two line pro-Temperance statement with facsimile signatures of James Madison, Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams. Brilliant, rare. Holed at top, extremely fine.
Estimate $300
SOLD $180
USA, General Winfield Scott Shoulder Plate, c1850 for the Scott Legion, in bronze, tin backing (89x67mm), truncation PH Jacobus (Philadelphia c1856-71). Staining on right otherwise extremely fine.
Estimate $600
SOLD $500
USA, launching of the iron hulled steamship Great Eastern, 1859, bronze (31mm) by J.H. Merriam, New York, obv. view of ship sailing right, rev. legend "DESIGNED BY I.K.BRUNEL/LENGTH 692 FEET/BREADTH/83 FEET/DEPTH/58 FEET/23,000 TONS/BUILT BY SCOTT RUSSELL.", (Rulau NY 2051, BHM 2661). Some lustre, otherwise nearly uncirculated.
Estimate $200
Passed in
USA, 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in America, 1892, bronze (59mm), by Pogliaghi, obv. bust of Columbus facing left surrounded by the allegorical figures of America and Europe who join hands among laurel and palm branches, rev. allegorical scene with the winged civilization among cherubs appearing to the people of America lying on the ground, (Eglit 107). Uncirculated.
Estimate $600
SOLD $440
USA, Sinking of the SS 'Lusitania', 1915, silver (54mm) by Baudichon, obv. figure of America draped and wearing a star-pointed crown, her right hand upraised holding a sword, "ULTRIX . AMERICA . JURIS 1917 U.S.A 1918", rev. view of SS 'Lusitania' sinking, above a child drowning, "LUSITANIA MAY . 7 . 1915". Extremely fine and rare in silver.
Estimate $500
SOLD $1,800
USA, Hartford Fire Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut, 110th anniversary, 1921 in bronze (100mm) (305g). Extremely fine.
Estimate $200
Passed in
United States of America, PNC with .925 fine silver medallion commemorating the Apollo-Soyuz Space Mission, 1975; PNC with .925 fine medallion commemorating the American Bicentenary; Canada, Elizabeth II, proof one dollars in .925 fine silver, 1979, 1980, 1982; Singapore, PNC with .925 fine medallion. All in wallets or cases of issue, FDC. (6)
Estimate $350
SOLD $240
First Romanian Cosmonaut, Intercosmos program, in bronze (59 mm), awarded to Dumitru Prunariu, May 1981, with matched pin, in presentation box with handwritting inside lid presenting the medal to Peter Lloyd, OBE, President of the M.G.A., from the first Romanian Cosmonaut, 1988. Very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $120
World medals, USA, Department of State, US Consulate General, enamelled yellow bronze medals for Mexico, Cuidad, Juarez, and Nogende, Sonora; also GB Royal Mint Coronation medal 1937 in silver (33mm) in box of issue. Nearly uncirculated. (3)
Estimate $90
Passed in
World, Hard Rock Cafe, guitar fridge magnets, bottle openers, cities, Baltimore, Dubai, Helsinki, Krakow, Maui and Warsaw. Extremely fine. (6)
Estimate $200
SOLD $40