The Portland Collection, Commemorative Medals, Transport: Railways, USA, Centenary of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, bronze medal, 1927, by Hans Schuler for the Medallic Art Company, 'the Spirit of Transportation' guides a train through a mountain pass, rev. the B & O's first steam engine, Tom Thumb, 69.5mm.; Switzerland, Opening of the Albula Railway, bronze medal, 1903, by M. Risch and (rev.) H. F. Lavater, for Huguenin, St. Luke, facing, in Gothic style, rev. train in mountain landscape, 37.5mm. (Moyaux 212; BDM.II, 572 [Huguenin]; Swan 244, 1st item); Netherlands, Golden Jubilee of the State Railway, bronze medal, 1913, by J. C. Wienecke, locomotive on bridge, rev. view of station yard in Utrecht, 65mm. (Moyaux 535a); Mining, bronze award medal of the State mines in Limburg (1927), unissued, by J. C. Wienecke, miner works underground, rev. a mining complex, 75mm., all extremely fine (4)
Hans Schuler (1874-1951), German born American sculptor and the first American to win the Paris Salon's gold medal.
The Albula Railway is part of the Rhaetian network, linking Thusis with the resort town of St. Moritz.