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Auction 90  24 September 2014
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Lot 2109

Estimate: 80 GBP
Price realized: 80 GBP
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Medals of the Axis, Germany, Generalfeldmarschall August von Mackensen (1849-1945), Bronze Medal, 1914, by Richard Klein (1890-1967), head three-quarters right, rev sword pierces the Russian bear, WELTKRIEG - 1914, 31mm (Zetzmann 2079; Jones, Dance of Death, fig 38); Feldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg, Victories at Tannenberg and Masuren, Silvered-metal Medal, 1915, by Erzsébet [Elisabeth] von Esseö (1883-1954), bust left, rev Russian bear severely wounded with a lance, 30mm (Jones, Art of the Medal, fig 395). First very fine, second better. (2)
Richard Klein was director of the Munich School of Applied Arts and became a favoured artist of Hitler and the Nazi regime.

Estimate: £80-120
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