Mystery Medallion: Major Library, European?

This sweet little mystery begs your collective assistance, please:

80.8mm x ~4.5mm; 172.8gm; smooth edge, flat back.

It appears to show the interior of a major library, based on the globes, tables etc. on the floor, and lots of books on walls.

There is not a word on the edge; the back is similarly blank; and 'tho I've examined the face in some detail, I can find no mark indicative of what, who, where, why or when.

I bought it for the puzzle, plus it's a very nicely done slab of bronze.

This post will be greatly enhanced if I can manage to get four pics uploaded into it...here goes:

Well, here they are...but so small! How can I post larger pics directly into the thread page?

 

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Lots of info and a good source for finding help at this site, if you don't get the info here on CT:

Historical Art Medals.com

 

Thanks, krispy...

I've avoided the Photobucket, and others like it, as I didn't feel the need. I've only got a little under 9000 pics, and with a modern huge hard-drive it seemed somehow redundant to outsource such a simple function. I'm begining to see the light...and will look into Photobucket and others. Maybe, just maybe, I've got something to learn.

And I'll certainly go browsing at Historical Art Medals...I've already bookmarked the site. Thanks for that wee gem, too!

 

Nice Medallion I hope you find out more!!!!

 

I'll post it here when I do, Angelo.

 

Ok.
Still hunting and pecking w/New setup.

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W any news on this metal????
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Just wondering
I was killing time the other day on ebay here one I think U have seen.

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Hi, Angelo...No news on the Bronze Mystery Slab, except someone suggested the Austrian National Library, Vienna. Truth, I turned my attention elsewhere and it languishes under more recent stuff in the heap that hides my desktop.

And no, I Had NOT seen the Canadian 1939 in your pics...how 'bout a link to that page? Thanks, wlw

 

I hear ya Warren maybe a good winter project???
1939 was damaged too much to for bidding wise .
@* > no box or anything for the money.

 

i use image shack

 

Here's an interesting photo I found, but wasn't able to dig much further...

The image was titled "Cambridge University Great Library of Law"

 

i dont think its a library thoes arent books look like bricks and theres statues every where and people on the balconies looks more like a museum or a greek/roman theater

 

the statue seems to be of the roman goddess minerva

 

It's a library, you can see vertical lines between the horizontal rows of "bricks." That picture of the Cambridge University Great Law Library does look a lot like your medal.

 

Hmm, I do believe it is a library. Remember that the people you see in the background may well be sculpted or painted. This for example is a view of the National Library in Vienna that has been mentioned here before. Not that this is the one on the medal (at least I don't think so) but it shows, in the upper part, why people are not necessarily people.

Christian

 

It also looks alot like tje reading room in the jefferson building i believe its a reading room could ne a fantasy dipiction of the huge library that was inthat ancient ciry alexandrea or something the status and desks remind me of rome and minerva us the godess of knowledge which would be the cemter statue in a roman library thomas jefferson even had a painting of minerva

 

IMO, that is not a statue of Minerva...

I would say Italy, but a modern (1400's to now) library.

By the way, do you know what spell-checking and punctuation are?

 

yeah i do but it dosent quit work so well on a phone when you cant see what your typeing