Lot 175
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A collection of music medals and plaques (121), mostly in bronze, with a few coins and medals in silver, depicting composers and musicians, as listed below; together with Royal Academy of Music prizes, all with loops, in silver (3) and copper (3); and a small quantity of medals, plaques etc. concerning music, painters, actors and other arts in silver (3) and base metal (15); various sizes, approximately 70-15 mm., mostly with some staining on the reverses, otherwise all very fine or better, an interesting collection; also a copy of Paul Niggl, Musiker Medaillen, Darmstadt, 1965, and an off-print of Carsten Svarstad, Medals of Actors, Singers and Dancers, Spink, 1963 (145)

Details
A collection of music medals and plaques (121), mostly in bronze, with a few coins and medals in silver, depicting composers and musicians, as listed below; together with Royal Academy of Music prizes, all with loops, in silver (3) and copper (3); and a small quantity of medals, plaques etc. concerning music, painters, actors and other arts in silver (3) and base metal (15); various sizes, approximately 70-15 mm., mostly with some staining on the reverses, otherwise all very fine or better, an interesting collection; also a copy of Paul Niggl, Musiker Medaillen, Darmstadt, 1965, and an off-print of Carsten Svarstad, Medals of Actors, Singers and Dancers, Spink, 1963 (145)

Lot Essay

J. S. Bach 3
Anton Berthelme 1
Ludwig van Beethoven 5
Hector Berlioz 1
Anton Bruckner 3
Johannes Brahms 3
Fesdor Chaliapin 1
Luigi Cherubini 1
Dominico Cimarosa 1
Frederic Chopin 4
J. Baptist Cramer 1
Hans Forster 1
Wilhelm Furtwängler 1
Christoph Gluck 2
Charles Gounod 1
Alfred Grünfeld 2
Reynaldo Hahn 1
R G. F. Handel 8
Franz Joseph Haydn 3
Maria Jeritza 1
Joseph Joachim 2
Joseph Kainz 1
Thomas Koschat 1
Jan Kubelik 1
Orlando di Lasso 1
Franz Lehár 1
Jenny Lind 3
Rouget de Lisle 1
Franz Liszt 5
Gustav Mahler 1
Richard Mayr 2
M. Magdalena Morelli 1
W. A. Mozart 17
Modest P. Mussorgskij 1
Otto Nicolai 1
Adolphe Nourrit 1
Niccolò Paganini 1
Nicola Piccini 1
David Popper 1
Giacomo Puccini 1
Dr Hans Richter 1
Camille Saint-Saëns 1
Emil Sauer 1
Franz Schalk 1
Franz Schubert 6
Robert Schumann 1
Friedrich Bedrich Smetana 1
Johann Strauss 4
Dr. Richard Strauss 1
Johann Strauss with Joseph Lanner 1
Sigismund Thalberg 1
Michelle Pauline Viardot 1
Richard Wagner 7
Mary Wakefield 1
Bruno Walter 1
Carl Maria von Weber 1
Charles Weinberger 1
Felix Weingartner 1
Hugo Wolf 1