Exonumia Auction - Maine Antique Digest

Lot 1460 (reduced)Lot 1455 (reduced)has his finest assistant. Her medallic work has been comparedfavorably with that of MacMonnies mentor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens. (F)1456. SAINT BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH CORNERSTONE MEDAL,1917. 38mm. Bronze. Attilio Piccirilli, Sc. (MACO) XF with a rx. rimnick at 8:00. The obverse depicts a standing figure of an apostleholding a model of the Byzantine style Park Avenue church; thecity skyline in the background. Small ANS emblem at the saint’sfoot. The reverse bears four coats arms and the legend: BEHOLDTHE TABERNACLE OF GOD WITH MEN AND HE WILL DWELLWITH THEM. Struck in an unknown quantity in both 38 and 51mmsizes. (D)1457. HARVARD CRIMSON MEDAL, CA. 1917. Storer 889. 37.3mm+ loop. Silver. XF/AU. Obv: Harvard seal. Below: Laurels toleft, date 1873 and quill pen and ink bottle to right. Below: THEHARVARD CRIMSON. Rx: Blank but for hand inscribed name: W.H. MEEKER/ ’17. (E)1458. HARVARD PHOENIX CLUB, CA. 1919. Storer 935. 41mmirregular. Bronze. XF/AU Suspension loop removed at top. Obv: APhoenix rising from the flames. Rx: Within a partial laurel wreath:PHOENIX/ CLUB/ HARVARD./ UNIVERSITY. Hand inscribedbelow: R. H. KISSEL, JR./ ’19. Kissel was a stockbroker in NYCand the brother-in-law of Enrico Caruso. (D)1459. TRIBE OF BEN HUR 25 TH ANNIVERSARY & FAITHFUL,SERVICE MEDAL, 1919. 69.5mm. Bronze. Julio Kilenyi, Sc.(W&H) . Obv: * THE SUPREME TRIBE OF BEN HUR” FOUNDEDBY DAVID W. GERARD 1894 around a bust of Gerard to the left.Rx: 1894 SILVER ANNIVERSARY 1919 above four horse in fullgallop pulling a quadriga. Below: AWARDED TO/ uninscribedcartouche/ FOR FAITHFUL/ SERVICE. (E)1460. CHILDREN’S YEAR, 1919. Baxter 243. 51.5mm. Bronze.Chester Beach, Sc. (MACO). Unc. A few minor reverse spots.Obv: Charming standing figure of a nude child around which iscurled an eagle with its wings spread. CHILDREN’S YEAR above.APRIL 6, 1918 APRIL 6, 1919 to bottom left. Rx: CHILDREN’SBUREAU/ UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR./ AND/WOMAN’S COMMITTEE/ COUNCIL OF/ NATIONAL DEFENSE.Rays emanate from the sun at bottom.As stated by one of the top officials of the Federal Children’sBureau, “The primary aim of the Children’s Year program is thereduction of infant mortality in the United States, by trying tosave 100,000 lives (one third of the annual preventable deaths)during the second year of the war, but the real and great purposeof the work is educational, the teaching of parents-mothersespecially- in such wise that not only will the future claim fewervictims of preventable disease, but also will find fewer avoidableabnormalities and fewer remediable defects amongst the childrenof the nation.At the conclusion of the program a “small bronze replica ofthis medal was distributed to each state chairman by the childconversation section of the Council of National Defense, togetherwith a letter expressing the gratitude of the council and the bureaufor the “high Humanitarian and patriotic service rendered in theexecution of the Children’s year program.” (F)1461. NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON PRISONS AND PRISON LABORMEDAL OF MERIT, (1920) 51.3mm. Gold Plated Bronze. Uniface.Chester Beach, Sc. (MACO). About Uncirculated. The design ofthis medal was described by the artist as follows: “The prisonerseated but unfettered is about to grasp the extended brotherlyhand of patriotic labor The rising sun of hope is seen in thebackground of the design and the soaring eagle and flag togetherwith the pointing hand of labor are expressive of the uplift andforward impulse of the nation and humanity The reverse side ofthe medal is plain except for the name of the recipient which isthere engraved.” The award was made for “Distinguished ServiceH200