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Message:: [QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8162062, member: 20201"]1899 French MedalVille du Havre - Société canine de la Basse-Seineby Louis Bottee44 mm Silvered Bronze [ATTACH=full]1424745[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1424746[/ATTACH] This obverse appears on other medals but this one really caught my eye. That rooster on the helmet or cap of Marianne is in my opinion amazing.The engraving and design of this medal is beautiful. I love the dogs on the reverse.Perhaps there was a dog show around 1900?Maybe the Canine Society is similar to the AKC?I do not know, but there seems to be a series of these similar medals.This same reverse with the dogs also appears on other medals with different images of Marianne on the obverse, but that rooster had me at first hello. The artist / engraver Louis Alexandre Bottee was born in Paris, France on March 14, 1852. At age 13 Bottée was apprenticed to an engraver. He later studied at Ecole des Beaux-Arts and privately with Paulin Tasset. He is best known as an engraver of international exposition medals including Expositions Universelles of 1889 and 1900 in Paris, the World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair) of 1893, Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St Louis World's Fair) in 1904. He also did the 1906 Restoration of San Francisco medal. He was made an officer of the Legion d'honneur in 1903. He died in Paris in November 1940.[/QUOTE]