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Auction 90  24 September 2014
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Lot 1847

Estimate: 500 GBP
Price realized: 950 GBP
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, BRITISH MEDALS, Medals by Benetto Pistrucci (1783-1855), George III, the Great Waterloo Medal, 1815, by Benedetto Pistrucci, made in two halves by the electrotype process and joined to make a single medal, conjoined, laureate and draped busts left, of the Prince Regent, Francis II of Austria, Alexander I of Russia and Frederick William III of Prussia, mythological allegory around, rev Victory guiding the equestrian figures of Wellington and Blücher, around them a border of battling giants, 131mm (BHM 870; Eimer 1067; Eimer Wellington 57; Stefanelli pl.18-21; Marsh pl.11-12, 49-50). Choice extremely fine, scarce.
The dies of the medal were never hardened and these Victorian electrotypes are the nearest one can get to an original Waterloo Medal.

Estimate: £500-800
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