Watch List notes:

Austria, World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1863-1914) and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (1868-1914), uniface bronze memorial medal, 1914, by Hans Schwathe, following their assassination in Sarajevo, he, bemedalled to l., she resting her head on his chest, 60mm., set in a leather stand, this inscribed IN MEMORIAM FRANCISCI FERDINANDI EIVSQVE VXORIS SOPHIAE – MDCCCCXIIII, a sensitive portrait, good very fine, the stand a little rubbed; a rare memorial to the event that triggered the First World War
Johannes (Hans) Schwathe (1870-1950), Austrian sculptor and medallist
(70-90 GBP)