Lot n° 38
Estimation :
50 - 80
EUR
Reunion of TWO MEDALS in brass (also known as "Florentine br - Lot 38
Reunion of TWO MEDALS in brass (also known as "Florentine bronze"):
- Greeting medal decorated with faces, flowers and wings, featuring inscriptions from Henri d'OFTERDINGEN's novel "Novalis".
Obverse: "Soon the garden of hesperides will bloom again and the golden fruits will perfume the breeze / Novalis: Henri d'Ofterdingen".
On reverse: "Wishes and desire are wings / Novalis / Romantic wishes."
Signed "Jean MARCEL" (engraver) and dated 1979 on the edge.
Diameter: 10 cm.
- Medal signed Bernard TURLAN and dated 1983 on the edge.
"May the new year be for you a source... gushing with joy".
Diameter: 10 cm.
This medal was designed by Pierre Dehaye, Director of the Monnaie de Paris, and produced by Bernard Turlin. Presented to François Mitterrand in 1983, a copy is kept at the Musée du Septennat in Château-Chinon. Source: Katia Schaal, "May the New Year be for you a gushing source of joy!", published in the research notebook on the reverse of the medal, 08/01/2019.
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