French medal received in jig time
laurentyvan
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Won this on 12/20-same day shipping notification from French seller-received yesterday with Christmas and New Years in between! 
Had to have this for a variety of reasons: bust of Marianne in the mix, beautiful nude woman, overall great allegorical design, really irritated that I had just lost another piece to an ubberbidder.
Obv/ EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE.1889. A woman (France ?) seated right and crowning a naked worker seated on an anvil. On the background : a view of the fair and the Eiffel Tower (inaugurated during this World Fair).
Rev/ REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE. A naked Victory is blowing in her trumpet as she holds the Bust of Marianne (the Symbol of the French Republic).
engraved by Louis Bottée (born in Paris, 1852-1941).
image is soft instead of sharp-once again I tend to lose definition when reducing file size???
Had to have this for a variety of reasons: bust of Marianne in the mix, beautiful nude woman, overall great allegorical design, really irritated that I had just lost another piece to an ubberbidder.
Obv/ EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE.1889. A woman (France ?) seated right and crowning a naked worker seated on an anvil. On the background : a view of the fair and the Eiffel Tower (inaugurated during this World Fair).
Rev/ REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE. A naked Victory is blowing in her trumpet as she holds the Bust of Marianne (the Symbol of the French Republic).
engraved by Louis Bottée (born in Paris, 1852-1941).
image is soft instead of sharp-once again I tend to lose definition when reducing file size???
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
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