Watch List notes:

COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, World Medals, Egypt, Georges Philippar (1883-1959), The Exposition Française in Cairo, of which he was President, Bronze Medal, 1929, by Auguste Maillard (1930), head left, rev Cairo sky-line with Minarets of the Al-Azhar Mosque mosque, 67mm, in red leather case of issue. Mint state.eorges Philippar was a shipbuilder and founder of the Société Provençale de Constructions Aéronautiques. The obverse of this medal was used again on a medal to commemorate what was to be the disastrous maiden voyage of the MS Georges Philippar, named in his honour, in 1932. On her return voyage the ship caught fire in the Gulf of Aden with the loss of 54 lives. At the time it was suggested that the fire was an attempt to silence the powerful investigative journalist and writer Albert Londres (1884-1932), who perished in it.

Estimate: £150-200