August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
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Description
FRANCE. Eleuthere Mascart Uniface Bronze Medal, 1902. UNCIRCULATED.
Diameter: 152mm. By JC Chaplain. Obverse: Bust left, ELEUTHERE MASCART DE L'ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES around; Reverse: Blank. Obverse uniface portrait bust facing left, whose details of the sitter are among the most extraordinary in all of Champlain's oeuvre. Mascart (1837-1908), studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, where he was later professor of mechanics and physics, as also at the Sorbonne and Collège de France. He won the Bordin Prize (1866) for his work in optics, electricity, magnetism, meteorology; the Grand Prize of the Academy of Sciences (1874) for his achievements in the science of refraction and optics; elected (1884) a Member of the Academy of Sciences in the general physical section for which he later became its perpetual secretary; and made a foreign member of the British Royal Society (1892) and vice-president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (1900). He is most famous for his contributions toward the invention and acceptance of the system of electric units (the volt, ampere, ohm) universally in use to the present day. A high point of his career was his speech delivered before the Academy of Sciences in 1902, when he was also presented with this magnificent portrait medal. This was Stephen Parks's favorite Chaplain piece, and always on exhibition in his home. References: - Deneken, J. C. Chaplain-Ausstellung Medaillen, #93 - ANS New York Exhibition 1910, #20
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From the Stephen R. Parks Collection of Medallic Arts.
Estimate: $100.00- $200.00
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| Price realized | 200 USD |
| Starting price | 60 USD |
