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1093 MEMORIAL MEDALLION
bronze with touch mark; artist: G. Dupre; obverse: contemplative scene
of man standing with hands clasped in prayer alongside his team of oxen
and his dog, facing his plowed fields with a church in the distance; reverse:
image of shepherd and his flock seated on a grave marker holding
a baby; text: “C’est l’angelus qui tinte et rappelle en tout lieu - Que le
matin des jours et le soir sont a dieu”; beautiful imagery, VF to EX
1094 WESTINGHOUSE ORDER OF MERIT AWARD
1948, 100 mm; bronze; Medallic Art Co. NY; obverse: machine age
artistic rendering of industrial achievements, including factories with
smoke stacks, skyscrapers, ship, train, bus, bridge, and an enormous
power turbine central, the sun obscured by the billowing smoke, lettering
below: Order of Merit; reverse: large silvered W inf front of plume,
block letters along lower perimeter Westinghous Award; inscribed to
Gustave E. Axelson “Whom his Fellow Men Delight to Honor” 1948;
powerfully designed with some rubbing to patina on high spots, VF to EX
1095 40th ANNIVERSARY of the FOUNDATION OF DUNLOP
1928, 51.5 mm x 60.5; bronze, with triangle touch mark; artist: Baudichon
obverse: portrait of founder J. B. Dunlop, with images of flying
biplane, motorcycle, race car and bicycle; text: J. B. Dunlop; 1888 40th
Anniversaire 1928 - De La Fondation - De L’Industri Du Pneumatique;
reverse: depiction of natives gathering sap from rubber trees, lower
portion shows factory complex with foliate ornament; text: Visite des
Usines Dunlop a Montlucon Allier - Societes Anonyme des pheumatiques
Dunlop; this medal commemorates the 40th Anniversary of Dunlop
Industries, whose tires were an intrinsic part of many modes of transportation;
unusual imagery with very little wear, EX
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1096 WAR SERVICE MEDAL - AMERICAN CAR & FOUNDRY
1917-1918; 63.5 mm; bronze; artist: C.B.-J.K.; Gorham; obverse: depicts
munitions worker wielding a sledge hammer confronts a snake curled
around a German spiked helmet atop an anvil; ship, guns and shells in the
background, lettered “Presented by the American Car and Foundry Company”
and dated; reverse: depiction of Victorious Columbia striding with
American Flag and plume, with Statue of Liberty and rising sun; lettered
“For Service Faithfully Rendered”; this WWI era medallion was issued
by one of the leading railroad car manufacturing companies, based in St.
Charles Missouri, this industrial giant was headed by noted numismatist
William H. Woodin; some small dents to rim edges, some wear to high
areas of image; striking and well sculpted patriotic imagery; Fine to VF
1097 LEDERLIN BROTHERS MEDALLION
1923, 101mm x 80.5 mm; bronze, artist: Andre Lavrillier; obverse: dual
portraits of Armand Lederlin (1836-1919) and Paul Lederlin; reverse:
interior of Lederlin factory works with vignette of factory buildings
above, text above: B.T.T. Blanchisserie et Teinturerie de Thaon, text
below: A Paul Lederlin Ses Collaborateurs ses Ouvriers MCMXXIII;
medallion commemorates
Lederlin laundry and
dry cleaning factory of
Thaeon, Paul Lederlin,
his workers and his colleagues;
some rubs to high
relief areas, VF
1098 WIRELESS TELEGRAPH COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL
1927, 100 mm, Moneta 41 and touchmark; artist: P. M. Dammann;
obverse: image of the goddess Iris, messenger of the Gods, with winged
feet, carrying scepter, with strand of wires held above her head, image of
zodiac wheel in background; reverse: hexagonal antenna encircling the
earth with Africa and Europe showing, surrounded by stars and lightning
bolts, T S F below; this medal was produced to commemorate the
invention of Telegraphie Sans Fil, or the wireless telegraph an accomplishment
that
had tremendous
scientific and
historical impact,
exceptionally
clean and crisp,
very light wear,
NM