Lincoln Plaque by Victor D. Brenner

The plaque I just posted is about 8 x 10, marble and all. I actually own it.
This one is about 11 x 14 and I know little about it.
My high bid was $2000 and it went for at least twice that.
I'm having a really hard time posting on this site for some reason.
It takes me a while but I have more to follow.

 

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Your plaque is fantastic. : )

Maybe by the end of this year it will double in value again. Let me make a wild estimate that yours will be worth $50,000 in 10-20 years. : )

The signature on the 11 x 14 is wild. And I suppose the SC. is for Sculptor.

Mine's the size of a medal; yours is the size of a photograph on a desk. Zowee.

 

I had to go back and look at the 11 x 14 auction.
It sold for $7100.

There were many sizes of these types of Lincoln plaques and many fakes.

Some of these were on black and white marble.
I ran into one at the last Fun Show.
A dealer to dealer offer of $2000 was turned down.
I cant seem to find much information on the use of B/W marble use.
If someone here has information on this please share it.

 

Are you paying a finder's' fee? There is currently one for sale here - http://www.alincolnbookshop.com/html/prints_paintings_sculpture.htm - for $9500 which is a bit high, but it's described as #1 of the series and in perfect shape. Also for sale are a number of other period Lincoln items including a pretty nice Currier & Ives print for a seemingly bargain price of $1500.

 

This one was on Ebay a while back starting at $2900. It got no bids.

 

Lincoln Plaque

I have one of the Lincoln Plaques in Silver. I am curious to learn more about it if anyone can help. Thanks

 

Check Heritage, one sold this weekend at the CSNS show.....

 

Welcome. Could you give us the size and look for any markings?

I looked at Heritage site Jack but could never find it.
A person can get lost there looking at all the cool stuff.

 

I have one each of the Lincoln V.D.B Plaques Any idea what they are worth?
- Andrew

 

Gold Filled Plaque

I have 2. One marked Fine Silver and the other marked 1/10 10K GF

 

What super looking plaques guy's thanks for sharing them with us :hug:

 

Bumped for reference

 

Wow. It's been two years. At this years Fun show I looked at one about 8x10 inches including the marble. The dealer wanted about $4000 for it. He also had one that was about 5x7 including the marble. Have never seen that size. He claimed it was very rare and wanted $3600 for it. I"m not sure it was real.

 

LD - if you stop back to this thread. I have been doing my due diligence and research on those plaques. The information below will help with the various sizes. I have more info if you want it...
Lots of info here:


The seminal moment came either in Brenner's studio at 114 E. 28th Street or, in an alternative version cited by medallic art expert D. Wayne Johnson of Torrington, Conn., at Roosevelt's Oyster Bay home. While Roosevelt was sitting for the Panama medal, he and Brenner hit it off. Considering both men's enthusiasm for fine art, one can only imagine the conversation. Brenner showed Roosevelt a model, or more likely a bronze plaquette, of his Lincoln bust, and the president decided it would translate beautifully to a coin.

It did. The Lincoln cent closely replicates a plaque Brenner initially created in 1907 to capitalize on the upcoming centennial of Lincoln's birth, thinking he would find plenty of buyers.
The first production run of Brenner's Lincoln figure was a uniface 7x9.5-inch plaque mounted on greenish marble with the wording "Copyright 1907 by V.D. Brenner" at the lower right. A pristine example sold in a Heritage auction in February 2007 for $3,107, while a second example with cracked marble fetched $1,792.50.

Brenner produced his Lincoln in several shapes and sizes, always with the same profile. (When it works, it works. Why change it? Even the president liked it.) Plaques ran as large as 11x13.75 inches (280x350 mm), and modern after-casts of the larger plaque are known, according to Brenner collector Michael Turoff of Flushing, New York.

Smaller contemporary copies often were awarded as school prizes — and if the mark "S. KLABER & CO. FOUNDERS, N.Y." appears on the back, it's an original from 1907, Turoff said (although this mark isn't present on every original).

Brenner's Lincoln even showed up on a 22x28-inch bronze tablet depicting his bust in medallic form next to the text of the Gettysburg Address, cast by Gorham Co. and sold to half a dozen schools and public buildings. The City of New York purchased one such tablet in 1909 for the façade of Brooklyn's Borough Hall.

It was probably a 1908 version of the uniface plaque, sans 1907 copyright, that Roosevelt saw in Brenner's studio, as illustrated in Cornelius Vermeule's Numismatic Art in America (Belknap Press, Harvard University, 1971).

Brenner apparently shopped around for duplication work. In 1908, another Brenner design was produced by Tiffany & Co., as noted in Q. David Bowers' unpublished Fifty Favorite Numismatic Pearls. Even the U.S. Mint got in on the deal: Beginning in 1908, it struck at least 350 of Brenner's Lincoln plaquettes at 2.65x3.5 inches (67x89.9 mm), according to Mint records cited in the Journal of the Token and Medal Society, said former TAMS president H. Joseph Levine of Presidential Coin & Antique Co. in Alexandria, Virginia.


But it was a "desk medal" version by Gorham that Brenner ultimately gave to Roosevelt





according to Roger W. Burdette's newly released Renaissance of American Coinage, 1909-1915 (Seneca Mills Press, 2007). In this form, Brenner's Lincoln with the dual dates 1809 and 1909, is in circular medallic style at the left; at the right is a view of a small eagle perched on a steep cliff overlooking a surging ocean with the words, "PRESERVE PROTECT DEFEND." This was meant to stand upright on a desk, and a large eagle with wings spread atop a column joins the two circles like the frame in a pair of eyeglasses.

Read more: http://www.cointalk.com/showthread.php?t=156010&page=2#ixzz1DvQzMnA8

 

Great information. Thanks. This is what the 22x28 inch one looks like. I have one like it in my collection. The Lincoln medal is actually a separate piece that fits into the plaque. This second image is the baby model, used as a paper weight.

 

I bought the above plaque when I was a kid. It came with an easel stand. I was trying to get more info on this plaque, like how many were made, what years were they made, and approximate value now.

thanks

 

The plaque I mentioned in post #24 as being for sale for $9500, is still for sale but now at $4500. It is marked #1 and has the 1907 copyright so I believe it is the first one produced and quite possibly the one viewed by Roosevelt. It bears the mark of S. Klayberg & Co./FOUNDERS N.Y.

http://www.alincolnbookshop.com/html/prints_paintings_sculpture.htm

 

I am still wanting information on this particular plaque. Year made, quantitiy, current value, rarity, etc?
Thanks
KingLucky

 

Hi KingLucky.
Items like this are tough to nail down a value. At auction the prices are all over the place.
If you could post an image of both sides and measure the actual size, I can help.
Check the edges for any markings.

 

Actually, there is an Original Medallic Art Bronze being offered by Joe Levine of Presidential this weekend in Baltimore. Lot #1268 Which I am Bidding on.