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Ref: 5209 |
George
III, the Great Waterloo Medal 1815 by Benedetto Pistrucci, manufactured in the
late 1840s, made in two halves by the electrotype process and joined to make
a single medal, rare Obv:
conjoined, laureate and draped busts left of the Prince Regent, Francis II of
Austria, Alexander I of Russia and Frederick William III of Prussia,
mythological allegory around Rev:
Victory guiding the equestrian figures of Wellington and Blücher, around them
a border of battling giants References:
BHM 870; E 1067 Condition:
Extremely fine; Diameter: 130mm Notes:
Eimer states “This was originally
intended as a struck medal, but such were the technical difficulties of
production that the medal was only completed in the late 1840s and its issue
limited to examples in electrotype (as here) and gutta percha”. Thus this is the nearest one can get to an original Waterloo
Medal (not to be confused with the Waterloo campaign medal). Price
£1750 |
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