Watch List notes:

World Medals, India, Joseph-François, Marquis Dupleix (1697-1763), Governor-General of the French East India Company's possessions and rival to Clive, Foundation of the Comite Dupleix, 1894, small bronze plaquette, 1898, by S. E. Vernier, bust of Dupleix l., rev. legends, 58 x 38.5mm., extremely fine, rare
The Comite Dupleix was founded by the explorer Pierre Gabriel Édouard Bonvalot (1853–1933) to "attirer l'attention sur les colonies, les faire mieux connaître et préparer à la vie coloniale les Français susceptibles de devenir colons".
(100-150 GBP)