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1084 RAFAEL MARIA DE LABRA MEDALLION
1913, 81 mm, lead, artist: A. Marina; obverse: profile portrait with text A
Dn Rafael Maria de Labra Madrid 11 913; reverse: text - por su civismo
y constancia ano
MCMX111; Rafael Maria
de Labra worked to
end slavery in Cuba and
was being honored for
civility and dedication;
damage to rim, mainly
on reverse; Fine
1085 50 YEARS OF BUSINESS MEDAL J. B. MIGNAQUY
1923, mm, bronze, artist: Constante Rossi; obverse: profile portrait, text:
J. B. Mignaquy en el 50 ano de su vida comercial 1873-1923; reverse:
two allegorical figures walking toward shining city of “labor”, text: si
quieros ser libre trabaja
(if you want your freedom
you must work); Mignaquy
was a past president of the
Buenos Aires stock market;
some spotting to reverse,
some rubbing, Fine to VF
1086 2 PORTRAIT MEDALS
largest 70mm xm 50mm, Bronze,
both uniface; Kramer-Malkiel
(1878-1932) by Rona Jozef,
marked Ludvig Budapest on reverse;
A.F.S. de Salazar - Moscoso
by Joao da Silva 1906; corrosion to
top edge of Salazar, otherwise VF+
1087 KINGDOM OF ITALY 50TH ANNIVERSARY MEDAL
1911, 60 mm, bronze, Morbiducci; obverse: farmer plowing field with
team of oxen with numerals MMDCXIV MMDCLXIV and “Roma”
in shield with sword; reverse: four nude figures support a placard
“Cinquantenario della proclamzione del Regno d’Italia; Italy was unified
in 1861 as a kingdom,
and remained so until
1946 when it became a
Republic; dark patina;
rubs to areas of high
relief, Fine to VF
1088 2 PORTRAIT MEDALS
60mm and 70mm, 1938 silver medal, artist:
Alf Mauquoy, indistinct foundry mark
on edge, Gonzalo Ximenez de Quesada,
400th anniversary of Spanish explorer and
Conquistador of Columbia; bronze uniface
with porfile portrait of man with big mustache,
no identifying marks; EX
1089 MARINER’S WIDOW MEDALLION
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1922, mm, bronze, artist: G. Prud’homme; Stylized cross form art medal,
obverse: depicts mourning women on their way to church, heavily
cloaked and veiled; reverse:
young woman stoicly looks out
to sea, looking for survivors
of the shipwreck out in the
distance; both attractive and
tragic, minor spotting and little
wear, VF+
1090 2 WWI MEMORIAL MEDALS
bronze with silver finish 60mm x 60mm;
and bronze 68mm; Silver finish, woman
grieving with wreath over grave of fallen
soldier “Honneur et Patrie”, reverse: “La
Ville de St Etienne a ses Enfants Morts
pour la France” by F. Rasvmny; unknown
soldier bronze medallion by M. Dammann,
grieving women standing on the grave of
the Unknown Soldier “Au Soldat Inconnu”,
reverse depicts 8 soldiers carrying coffin
towards the Arc d’Triomphe 11 Novembre 1920; VF to EX
1091 TEREZIN JEWISH MEMORIAL MEDAL
1989, 50mm, bronze; obverse: image of multitude of faceless people
behind barbed wire, text: kde domov muj kde domov; reverse:
(translates to:) On March 8 1944 3800 Czech Jews transported from
the Terezin perished in the gas chambers, with star of David central;
dated 1944 - 1989 - in 1989 Communism fell in Czechoslovakia; EX
1092 WORLD WAR 1 FRANCE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
1921, 68 mm, cuivre with touchmark, artist: Raoul René Alphonse
Bénard; obverse: enormous angel with wings outstretched, holding olive
branches and wearing a helmet welcoming the body of a fallen uniformed
soldier, being delivered by floating spirits; text below Gloire au Soldat
Inconnu (Glory to the Unknown Soldier); reverse: tomb site image with
wreath, military cross and flowers, tombstone reads: “Repose un Soldat
Francais Mort Pour La Patrie 1914 1918”’; bronze patina worn through
on high relief areas particularly on reverse; Fine