Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
January 2014 NYINC Auction - Sess. C-D 13 January 2014
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FRANCE. International Congress of Medicine, 1900.
48x63mm silver, by Bottee. Obverse: Portrait of Felix Guyon. Reverse: Tribute to Science: Old bedridden man attended by Goddess of Science with Lamp of Knowledge, at bottom, a dying figure and a tree stump, from which new life grows. Note the accurately depicted tiny medical paraphernalia near the bed. It is so characteristic of these well-trained medalists that they sweat the small details. CHOICE ALMOST UNCIRCULATED.
48x63mm silver, by Bottee. Obverse: Portrait of Felix Guyon. Reverse: Tribute to Science: Old bedridden man attended by Goddess of Science with Lamp of Knowledge, at bottom, a dying figure and a tree stump, from which new life grows. Note the accurately depicted tiny medical paraphernalia near the bed. It is so characteristic of these well-trained medalists that they sweat the small details. CHOICE ALMOST UNCIRCULATED.