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Wow -Talk about a Lion!!

oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
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Look at this medal - I'll bet boz11 has it - looks good enough to eat!!
Lion

Shep
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  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    As luck would have it,,,I have a type set of that medal so to speak, but not a silvered one.

    The Lion of Belfort is a sculpture by Frédéric Bartholdi, architect of the Statue of Liberty in New York, located in Belfort, France. It was finished in 1880 and is entirely made of pink sandstone. The blocs it is made of were individually sculpted then moved under Belfort castle to be assembled. The sculpture is 22 meters long and 11 meters high and dominates the local landscape.

    The lion symbolizes the heroic resistance of Belfort during a 103 days long Prussian assault (from December 1870 to February 1871). The city was protected from 40,000 Prussians by merely 17,000 men (only 3,500 were from the military) lead by Colonel Denfert-Rochereau.

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  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    Mighty fine lions you've got there,thought you would.
    Shep
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  • BSBS Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭
    That is nice.image
  • MadameMadame Posts: 236
    What a lovely piece.
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  • StorkStork Posts: 5,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The same seller also has a bronze one...gorgeous and on my watch list...even though I wasn't really planning on going after it seriously. I recently bought from that seller, and I can recommend him if anyone is interested.


    Cathy

  • DSH1963DSH1963 Posts: 282
    WOW
    GRUMPY OLD MAN
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