Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
November 2013 Baltimore Auction - Sess. B 8 November 2013
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MIXED LOTS. European Medals.
6 premium pieces in lot. Includes an 1826 France St. Etienne-Lyon Railroad by Tiolier. Edge antique lamp (1832-41). Judaica, a group of (3) different false Shekels, all with a flowering Rod of Aaron on the front and a burning censer on the reverse, all EXTREMELY FINE. From Switzerland is a cased 50.5 mm, 49.5 gms silver Neuchatel Agricultural Exposition medal by F. Durussel, ALMOST UNCIRCULATED. Finally, a 39.08 mm bronze Renaissance medal from Italy with a bearded bust right and the legend "THOMAS PHILOLOGUS RAVENNAS" around; Reverse: Features an eagle bringing the infant Hercules to his reclining naked mother, Juno. "A IOVE ET SODORE GENITA" around. By Jacopo Tatti (San Sovino) 1477-1570 but unsigned, FINE. Thomas Philologus. the subject of the medal was a physician from Padua. Attwood #236. Worn and with scratches in the fields, but still quite presentable. Retail value of about $700.FINE-ALMOST UNCIRCULATED.
Estimate: $200
MIXED LOTS. European Medals.
6 premium pieces in lot. Includes an 1826 France St. Etienne-Lyon Railroad by Tiolier. Edge antique lamp (1832-41). Judaica, a group of (3) different false Shekels, all with a flowering Rod of Aaron on the front and a burning censer on the reverse, all EXTREMELY FINE. From Switzerland is a cased 50.5 mm, 49.5 gms silver Neuchatel Agricultural Exposition medal by F. Durussel, ALMOST UNCIRCULATED. Finally, a 39.08 mm bronze Renaissance medal from Italy with a bearded bust right and the legend "THOMAS PHILOLOGUS RAVENNAS" around; Reverse: Features an eagle bringing the infant Hercules to his reclining naked mother, Juno. "A IOVE ET SODORE GENITA" around. By Jacopo Tatti (San Sovino) 1477-1570 but unsigned, FINE. Thomas Philologus. the subject of the medal was a physician from Padua. Attwood #236. Worn and with scratches in the fields, but still quite presentable. Retail value of about $700.FINE-ALMOST UNCIRCULATED.
Estimate: $200