Watch List notes:

France, Napoleon, the French Grenadiers, gilt-bronze box medal, 1815, by E. J. Dubois, uniformed bust almost full-face wearing bearskin headdress with grenade badge, GRENADIER FRANÇAIS, on the base a legend within a civic wreath, A LA GLOIRE DES ARMÉES FRANÇAISES, containing 15 double-sided and 2 single-sided linked roundels (these glued into the box), with battle details, 48mm. (Bramsen 1700; Julius 3438; Pressler 885; Koch 2755), the gilding rich with matt surface bright edge, the roundels with only a single break in the linkage (though some others fragile), superb and virtually mint state, rare
James Mudie was to get Dubois to adapt the design for the medal of 'A Scottish Soldier', 1801-1815, in Mudie's series of National Medals (BHM.868; Mudie 10)
(250-350 GBP)