French Bronze Plaques - anyone else into these?

ALFRED de MUSSET

This is: ~72mm, ~204gm, 1975 Cornucopia, BRONZE

Around the Obverse rim:
PARLOUT OU JAI VOULU DORMIR. PARLOUT OU JAI VOULU MOURIR.
UN ETRANGER VELOU NOIR. QUI ME RESSEMBLAIT COMME UN FRERE.

Which Google translates as:
EVERYWHERE I WANTED TO SLEEP. EVERYWHERE I WANTED TO DIE. A BLACK VELVET FOREIGNER. WHO LOOKED LIKE A BROTHER.

Sculptor? M. MACQUOT

The next several Medals (German, Silver) will appear in Coin Chat, under their individual titles.

Thanks for looking!! wlw

 

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Again, not French, regrets . . .

Any dog lovers?

Z

 

That's lovely!

Now that you've broken the barrier to dogs, I'll show one of mine:

~58.5mm, ~114gm; Ag, I hope...but untested.

I've been procrastinating contacting DPCA to determine when it/they were issued, and whether it's the real deal, or plated. It has no rim legend, but a rim ding, small but fairly sharp & deep (dogs tail, on reverse, points to it) shows no brass.

Any of you ever seen one, or know any history about it?

Thanks! wlw

 

Not French, Dutch. A portrait of a young Queen Wilhelmina that is close to the portrait on her coinage.

 

Speaking of breaking barriers, which is another way of saying "borders," the next medal is from Rome, which is in Italy, which shares a border with France.

Of course Belgium and Germany both share borders with France as well, so posting those medals wasn't far from the mark either

My "south east of the border" contribution.

Z

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Outrageously fine detail! Thanks for highlighting it...a really lovely piece! wlw

 

Isn't she lovely!? On the throne at 10, reigned just shy of 58 years.
My dear mother was born in Holland, 1912; Wilhelmina had been Queen 22 years by then. We heard a lot about her, growing up.

A truly beautiful depiction, showing her as a resolute youth. Thank you! wlw

 

She was so popular they even named a candy mint after her:


These are Wilhelmina mints, very appropriately named after the monarch. I get these in a Dutch grocery store, along with stroopwafel and other Dutch treats.

 

Dogs? Check.


Queens? Them too.


And Italy.



And this one, 'The work of the Barbarians'. Commentary on WWI. The bronze version is pretty much one of the first three medals that got me started on this type of collection. IIRC off the top of my head the medalist was French but eventually moved to Italy.


and the detail

 

I think we have well and truly derailed the OP's thread! It's just not easy to find a place to post these and it's easy to get carried away. And medal/plaque collecting is liberating. Themes, eras, events, people, history, and the ever popular "I liked it".

 

I have no problem with that! Lots of interesting medals and plaques showing up.
With the easing of the original topic I may be able to add a few more later.

 

@Stork OMG that Italian medal obverse would make a wonderful coin design.

 

Okay, y'all have totally corrupted me and started me down yet another rabbit hole I didn't know existed and really didn't need to go down.

Images of yet another French medal enroute to me. There's more, but this will have to suffice for now.

I'll post my own photos when this one arrives as well . . . .

Good Lord, somebody call for an intervention . . . .

Z

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Some of the most beautiful Women in the world are shown on French medals and coins...incredibly evocative, and awesomely attractive. This is one of them...young, serene & assured, helmed for battle, certain of victory. With each, I fall anew into helpless love. Thanks...wlw

 

Posted this in another thread a little while back. Seems like a fit here..

I had a memory growing up of a medal that my father kept in a jewel box that sat on top of his towering dresser in my parents bedroom. The only time I would go into that box would be to get a key for the front garage door in the rare case that it was locked for some reason so I never looked at it too carefully.

My parents moved from New York to Florida in the 90s and I moved into their house in an arrangement that worked best for everyone. I paid rent and kept money in the family and took care of the house. Never thought about the medal and with time assumed it went to Florida with them. I purchased the house in 2008 when my father passed away.

Recently I was doing a major clean up of the house emptying out all of the closets and way at the back of one small one with some old reels of photo slides I found that old jewel box. The only thing in it was a bunch of tie tacs and the medal!

I'll never know where he got it or why he chose to leave it behind.

Looking it up it was a lot more interesting than I would have imagined.

To commemorate a Napoleon Museum Visit to view all of the items pillaged by Dominique-Vivant Denon. The Venus of the Medici. Medal by Romain-Vincent Jeuffroy, 1803.

My father earned a purple heart in France in WWII. Perhaps he obtained it while he was there.

 

Well, I've been doing a little more research and poking around on the designer of those two amazing medals I just bought by French medal designer Louis-Oscar Roty when I came across this little ditty of fleaBay. I just had to bring this one home as well. It blends two of my favorite themes. Beautiful young women and trains, just like the Vernon I posted earlier.

This one is a "little sister" to my earlier, larger French medals. This looks to be an award medal for a French railway worker or official. I've seen a few with different award dates. This one was awarded to Mademoiselle Anne LaLanne in 1937.

Enjoy.

Z

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I have this WWI Victory Medal that was my maternal grand father's. It was actually mailed to American servicemen after the war. My gramps was born in 1909 so it would have to have been his father's or an uncle or some other relative is my guess. The France bar is for service in that country I am pretty sure.
I have posted this before but the thread seemed right to share again.

 

I acquired a French medal whilst buying a coin collection.

I have an Israeli-Italy and a
Australia-Canada cable laying medal, more modern.





I have many WWI, WWII, Boer War and Crimea medals, most are in the safe.

Here's a few in my cabinet including Grandfathers, Dads, and mine along with others.

 

It arrived . . . ! ! ! ! !





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And yes, my photos . . . . . . .

Z