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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8181021, member: 110350"]I don't post often in this forum, but thought it was the right place to post a new Art Deco medal I just bought, by Paul-Marcel Dammann:</p><p> </p><p>France, “Télégraphie sans Fil” (Wireless), bronze medal 1927 by Paul-Marcel Dammann. 68 mm. Obv: Iris (in Greek mythology, the personification of the rainbow and a messenger of the gods), holding a caduceus, travels through the sky, zodiac signs behind her / Rev: A stylized microphone or transmitter enclosing the Earth emits wavelengths through a starry sky, TSF below (Telégraphie Sans Fil). Reference: CGMP 3/116A</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1430273[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1430274[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The example in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum is described as follows on the museum's website: "This medal is a good example of the way in which French artists tried, in the inter-war years, to adapt classical mythology to the representation of contemporary technology. Here Iris, messenger of the gods, trips her way through the clouds with the zodiac behind her, drawing radio waves through the firmament." See <a href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O89899/wireless-medal-dammann-paul-marcel/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O89899/wireless-medal-dammann-paul-marcel/" rel="nofollow">https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O89899/wireless-medal-dammann-paul-marcel/</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think it will make a nice pair with my other Dammann Art Deco medal, produced five years later: </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/electricity-medal-dammann-o2-jpg.1086711/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/electricity-medal-dammann-r1-jpg.1086712/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This medal bears the date 1907 on the reverse, but was actually issued in 1932 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d'Électricité [C.P.D.E.] (the Parisian Electric Distribution Company). The obverse represents a personification of electricity (with the rays of the sun), and the reverse shows a woman bestowing light on the Parisian skyline. The medal was also designed by Paul-Marcel Dammann. It's 65 mm. in diameter and weighs 115.1 grams.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please post your own Art Deco medals or other exonumia. That style had basically replaced the Art Nouveau style of French medallic art by the mid- to late 1920s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8181021, member: 110350"]I don't post often in this forum, but thought it was the right place to post a new Art Deco medal I just bought, by Paul-Marcel Dammann: France, “Télégraphie sans Fil” (Wireless), bronze medal 1927 by Paul-Marcel Dammann. 68 mm. Obv: Iris (in Greek mythology, the personification of the rainbow and a messenger of the gods), holding a caduceus, travels through the sky, zodiac signs behind her / Rev: A stylized microphone or transmitter enclosing the Earth emits wavelengths through a starry sky, TSF below (Telégraphie Sans Fil). Reference: CGMP 3/116A [ATTACH=full]1430273[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1430274[/ATTACH] The example in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum is described as follows on the museum's website: "This medal is a good example of the way in which French artists tried, in the inter-war years, to adapt classical mythology to the representation of contemporary technology. Here Iris, messenger of the gods, trips her way through the clouds with the zodiac behind her, drawing radio waves through the firmament." See [URL]https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O89899/wireless-medal-dammann-paul-marcel/[/URL]. I think it will make a nice pair with my other Dammann Art Deco medal, produced five years later: [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/electricity-medal-dammann-o2-jpg.1086711/[/IMG] [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/electricity-medal-dammann-r1-jpg.1086712/[/IMG] This medal bears the date 1907 on the reverse, but was actually issued in 1932 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d'Électricité [C.P.D.E.] (the Parisian Electric Distribution Company). The obverse represents a personification of electricity (with the rays of the sun), and the reverse shows a woman bestowing light on the Parisian skyline. The medal was also designed by Paul-Marcel Dammann. It's 65 mm. in diameter and weighs 115.1 grams. Please post your own Art Deco medals or other exonumia. That style had basically replaced the Art Nouveau style of French medallic art by the mid- to late 1920s.[/QUOTE]
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