Auction 5
Historama's Autumn Auction (#5)
Oct 25, 2017
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The live timed auction is 386 lots of a larger 661-lot mail auction running from 1 - 25 Oct. More details and access to catalogue files are available here: historama.com
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LOT a50104*-LA:
Austria: Carl Andorfer commemorative medal, 1893; struck in silvered bronze(?); by Franz ...
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Austria: Carl Andorfer commemorative medal, 1893; struck in silvered bronze(?); by Franz Xavier Pawlik (Austria); 32.5mm, 20.15g; thickness: 2.75mm. Obv: Andorfer's profile left, w/abbrev. leg. "born in Vienna 1852" & Pawlik's name engraved on shoulder. Rev: dedication in Ger. surrounded by ornamental wreath "Co-founder of the Coins and Medals Club of Vienna | A Token from Your Friends". Medallic strike, plain rim. Andorfer was well known collector of coins & medals, co-founded w/Richard Epstein what became coll. of 1,000+ medals commemorating musicians (later purchased by Paul Niggl) & formed basis of book he published "Musica in Nummis" (1907). In EF-AU; Forrer-434, ANA 1910 exhibition #433. Pawlik at his peak was First Medallist to Vienna Mint.
