Watch List notes:

World Medals, Germany, Siegfried Wagner (1869-1930), composer of operas; conductor; from 1908 Artistic Director of the Bayreuth Festival, uniface cast bronze plaquette, 1900, by Franz Kounitzky, bust r. with somewhat foppish quiff of hair, 180mm. x 110mm. (Niggl 2284; cf. Baldwin's Auctions, 8 November 2008, 134), much as made, extremely fine with lettering in the Secessionist [Art Nouveau] style, rare
*ex Baldwin's vault.
Siegfried Wagner, son of Richard Wagner and grandson of Franz Liszt.
Franz Kounitzky (1880-1928). Niggl lists him as Friedrich not Franz. Austrian sculptor, medallist and die engraver. Born in Vienna, studied at the Vienna Academy under Bitterlich and Tautenhayn and later employed by the Austrian Royal Mint in Vienna.