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FRANCE, Syndicat Professionnel des Entrepreneurs de Travaux Publics de France, d'Algérie...
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Lafleur, Abel (French, 1875-1953); b. Rodez FRANCE, Syndicat Professionnel des Entrepreneurs de Travaux Publics de France, d’Algérie et des Colonies [Professional Union of Public Works Contractors of France, Algeria and the Colonies], 1932, a silver medal by A. Lafleur, artisan to right, digging with a spade, township and train crossing a railway viaduct in background, rev. radiant sun over a construction site, central tablet named (Compagnie Nouvelle des Ciments Portland du Boulonnais, 1890), edge impressed argent and with foundry mark, 70mm, 150.23g (cf. iNumis Dec. 2010, 281). Very fine and very rare £120-£150 --- The Compagnie Nouvelle des Ciments Portland du Boulonnais was formally established in May 1881; its principal cement factory, which had opened in 1874, was in Desvres (dép. Pas-de-Calais)
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Lafleur, Abel (French, 1875-1953); b. Rodez FRANCE, Syndicat Professionnel des Entrepreneurs de Travaux Publics de France, d’Algérie et des Colonies [Professional Union of Public Works Contractors of France, Algeria and the Colonies], 1932, a silver medal by A. Lafleur, artisan to right, digging with a spade, township and train crossing a railway viaduct in background, rev. radiant sun over a construction site, central tablet named (Compagnie Nouvelle des Ciments Portland du Boulonnais, 1890), edge impressed argent and with foundry mark, 70mm, 150.23g (cf. iNumis Dec. 2010, 281). Very fine and very rare £120-£150 --- The Compagnie Nouvelle des Ciments Portland du Boulonnais was formally established in May 1881; its principal cement factory, which had opened in 1874, was in Desvres (dép. Pas-de-Calais)
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