FRANCE - VERMEIL - UNION AGRICOLE ET INDUSTRIELLE LOUDUNOISE - Lot 383

FRANCE - VERMEIL - UNION AGRICOLE ET INDUSTRIELLE LOUDUNOISE (Loudun / 86). 19th century - 1st type medal, exceptionally large module - 57 mm - 92 grams - horn hallmark and SILVER mention on the edge - obverse: work by Bovy*: "République Française" in circular legend. In the center, France dressed in antique style, seated frontally, holding a hand of justice and a laurel wreath, on her right, a standing rooster; on the base, "Liberté, Egalite, Fraternité" - Reverse by Lagrange*: circular legend with the name of the company, center for attribution. Allegorical circular crown featuring wheat ears, vine leaves and grapes, rooster, ram's head, ox, horse, pig and dove. - SUP, in its original wood and velvet case. *Antoine BOVY: born in Geneva in 1795, died in 1877. Headed the Geneva mint until its closure in 1848. Studied at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. Naturalized French in 1835. Named Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur for having invented a mechanism making it possible to strike large medals. **Jean LAGRANGE: born in Lyon in 1831, died in Paris in 1908. 21st general engraver of coins from 1880 to 1896 - École des Beaux Arts de Lyon then École des Beaux Arts de Paris, 1st Grand Prix de Rome in medal engraving and fine stones 1860.