Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
January 2014 NYINC Auction - Sess. C-D 13 January 2014
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FRANCE. Britain. The "Entente Cordiale", 1903.
47x61mm silver, by Rene Gregoire. (NOT struck at Paris mint.) Obverse: The two nations. kissing warmly. Reverse: Ornate cartouche, engraved to Sir George Newnes, from the French newspaper Le Siecle. CHOICE ALMOST UNCIRCULATED.
Newnes was an editor and publisher; his Strand Magazine first published the Sherlock Holmes stories. He sponsored the Newnes Cup for chess competitions between the USA and Britain, conducted by trans-Atlantic cable, 1896-1911 (a year after he died).
47x61mm silver, by Rene Gregoire. (NOT struck at Paris mint.) Obverse: The two nations. kissing warmly. Reverse: Ornate cartouche, engraved to Sir George Newnes, from the French newspaper Le Siecle. CHOICE ALMOST UNCIRCULATED.
Newnes was an editor and publisher; his Strand Magazine first published the Sherlock Holmes stories. He sponsored the Newnes Cup for chess competitions between the USA and Britain, conducted by trans-Atlantic cable, 1896-1911 (a year after he died).