Lot 98
  • 98

[William Butler Yeats]--Theodore Spicer-Simson

Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
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Description

  • [William Butler Yeats]--Theodore Spicer-Simson
  • Two medals with portraits of W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory
  • bronze
W.B. Yeats. A cast bronze uniface portrait medal, 1922, by Theodore Spicer-Simson, 108mm, from his Men of Letters of the British Isles series, with portrait of Yeats facing right, W.B. Yeats in field, signature and date in Roman numerals above between two shamrocks, reverse plain except for foundry mark; Lady Gregory. A smaller cast bronze uniface portrait medal of similar style, also 1922 and by Theodore Spicer-Simson, 74mm, with veiled portrait of the dramatist facing left, legend, signature and date in roman numerals around, reverse also with foundry mark

Condition


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