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January 2014 NYINC Auction - Sess. C-D 13 January 2014
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UNITED STATES. War and Peace, (1913).
48x70mm silver, by Emil Fuchs, for Cartier. Miller 44. Obverse: Two nude men struggling. Reverse: Nude girl on knees, hands outstretched, looking upward; at top, children ringing large bell. Softly modeled. Issued the year before the European war, this is one of the most expressionist medals produced in this country, and just as likely one of the best.
Fuchs was a very interesting medalist, with feet in both the Britain and America. He garnered commissions from the Royal family and the Rothschilds. He produced this medal for Cartier (who gave the Metropolitan Museum a bronze specimen in 1920). He did the official medal of the Hudson-Fulton expo (1909). His medals are cataloged in an ANS article by Scott Miller. At an auction at a NYC coin show, late 1980s, Miller outbid John Marqusee, the Saint Gaudens collector, for a silver strike of this medal, at $400+. Numbered on edge (#3). Somewhat deeply toned, otherwise SUPERB MINT STATE.
48x70mm silver, by Emil Fuchs, for Cartier. Miller 44. Obverse: Two nude men struggling. Reverse: Nude girl on knees, hands outstretched, looking upward; at top, children ringing large bell. Softly modeled. Issued the year before the European war, this is one of the most expressionist medals produced in this country, and just as likely one of the best.
Fuchs was a very interesting medalist, with feet in both the Britain and America. He garnered commissions from the Royal family and the Rothschilds. He produced this medal for Cartier (who gave the Metropolitan Museum a bronze specimen in 1920). He did the official medal of the Hudson-Fulton expo (1909). His medals are cataloged in an ANS article by Scott Miller. At an auction at a NYC coin show, late 1980s, Miller outbid John Marqusee, the Saint Gaudens collector, for a silver strike of this medal, at $400+. Numbered on edge (#3). Somewhat deeply toned, otherwise SUPERB MINT STATE.