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FRANCE, Protection des enfants du premier âge [Protection of Early Childhood], 1885 or...
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Chaplain, Jules-Clément (French, 1839-1909); b. Mortagne-au-Perche
FRANCE, Protection des enfants du premier âge [Protection of Early Childhood], 1885 or 1887, a bronze award medal by J.-C. Chaplain for the Ministère de l’Interieur, female suckling a baby on her lap, while at the same time cooling liquid on a spoon before giving it to a naked young boy, rev. tablet over a bouquet of flowers, named (Mr Le Dr. G. Lautré), edge impressed bronze and cornucopia, 68mm, 129.24g (Maier 68 [quoting 1885]; PBE 74 [inferring 1897 but an error for 1887]; Coll. R. Marx 187; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.53, 43 [quoting 1887]; BDM I, 402; cf. CNG e466, 618; cf. DNW 176, 370). Extremely fine; in red fitted case of issue £40-£60
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Provenance: DNW Auction 45, 1 March 2000, lot 717.
Loi Théophile Roussel, enacted on 23 December 1874, was concerned with the then high rate of infant mortality, when more than one in two children died before their first birthday from poverty or hunger. Published sources are at variance quoting the date of manufacture of the medal by the Monnaie as 1885 or 1887
FRANCE, Protection des enfants du premier âge [Protection of Early Childhood], 1885 or 1887, a bronze award medal by J.-C. Chaplain for the Ministère de l’Interieur, female suckling a baby on her lap, while at the same time cooling liquid on a spoon before giving it to a naked young boy, rev. tablet over a bouquet of flowers, named (Mr Le Dr. G. Lautré), edge impressed bronze and cornucopia, 68mm, 129.24g (Maier 68 [quoting 1885]; PBE 74 [inferring 1897 but an error for 1887]; Coll. R. Marx 187; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.53, 43 [quoting 1887]; BDM I, 402; cf. CNG e466, 618; cf. DNW 176, 370). Extremely fine; in red fitted case of issue £40-£60
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Provenance: DNW Auction 45, 1 March 2000, lot 717.
Loi Théophile Roussel, enacted on 23 December 1874, was concerned with the then high rate of infant mortality, when more than one in two children died before their first birthday from poverty or hunger. Published sources are at variance quoting the date of manufacture of the medal by the Monnaie as 1885 or 1887
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Chaplain, Jules-Clément (French, 1839-1909); b. Mortagne-au-Perche
FRANCE, Protection des enfants du premier âge [Protection of Early Childhood], 1885 or 1887, a bronze award medal by J.-C. Chaplain for the Ministère de l’Interieur, female suckling a baby on her lap, while at the same time cooling liquid on a spoon before giving it to a naked young boy, rev. tablet over a bouquet of flowers, named (Mr Le Dr. G. Lautré), edge impressed bronze and cornucopia, 68mm, 129.24g (Maier 68 [quoting 1885]; PBE 74 [inferring 1897 but an error for 1887]; Coll. R. Marx 187; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.53, 43 [quoting 1887]; BDM I, 402; cf. CNG e466, 618; cf. DNW 176, 370). Extremely fine; in red fitted case of issue £40-£60
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Provenance: DNW Auction 45, 1 March 2000, lot 717.
Loi Théophile Roussel, enacted on 23 December 1874, was concerned with the then high rate of infant mortality, when more than one in two children died before their first birthday from poverty or hunger. Published sources are at variance quoting the date of manufacture of the medal by the Monnaie as 1885 or 1887
FRANCE, Protection des enfants du premier âge [Protection of Early Childhood], 1885 or 1887, a bronze award medal by J.-C. Chaplain for the Ministère de l’Interieur, female suckling a baby on her lap, while at the same time cooling liquid on a spoon before giving it to a naked young boy, rev. tablet over a bouquet of flowers, named (Mr Le Dr. G. Lautré), edge impressed bronze and cornucopia, 68mm, 129.24g (Maier 68 [quoting 1885]; PBE 74 [inferring 1897 but an error for 1887]; Coll. R. Marx 187; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.53, 43 [quoting 1887]; BDM I, 402; cf. CNG e466, 618; cf. DNW 176, 370). Extremely fine; in red fitted case of issue £40-£60
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Provenance: DNW Auction 45, 1 March 2000, lot 717.
Loi Théophile Roussel, enacted on 23 December 1874, was concerned with the then high rate of infant mortality, when more than one in two children died before their first birthday from poverty or hunger. Published sources are at variance quoting the date of manufacture of the medal by the Monnaie as 1885 or 1887
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