Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
August 2021 ANA Auction - Online 23-25 Aug 2021
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AUSTRIA. Anton Scharff. Silver Medal. 75th Birthday of Samuel Putnam Avery, Founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1897. CHOICE UNCIRCULATED.
65mm; 108.88 gms. Loehr-282. Obverse: Bust left, wearing frock coat; Reverse: Female personification of the Arts seated left upon chair and within library, holding statuette of Perseus with head of Medusa; statue of the Venus de Milo in background to left. Edge: [two hallmaks] located at 5h. Steely gray with a great matte nature and some deeper toning in areas of the obverse. A VERY RARE offering in silver.
From the Richard Jewell Collection.
65mm; 108.88 gms. Loehr-282. Obverse: Bust left, wearing frock coat; Reverse: Female personification of the Arts seated left upon chair and within library, holding statuette of Perseus with head of Medusa; statue of the Venus de Milo in background to left. Edge: [two hallmaks] located at 5h. Steely gray with a great matte nature and some deeper toning in areas of the obverse. A VERY RARE offering in silver.
From the Richard Jewell Collection.
Ex: Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge Collection (Stack's Bowers - 6/2012) Lot # 345 @ $998.75.
Estimate: $300 - $500