422, Lot: 687. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BELGIUM. temp. Albert I. 1909-1934. Silvered Æ Medal (69mm, 100.98 g, 12h). On the Assistance for Weak Children, Antwerp, 15 November 1915. By Edward Deckers; manufactured by Fonson & Co., Brussel. Dated 1915. Personification of Assistance with children huddling around and holding infant in arms, standing left, warding off Death, who skulks away to the left; tree in background; Edward Deckers below children / ASSISTANCE A L´ENFANCE DÉBILE – STEUN AAN HET ZWAKKE KIND –, ANVERS/15 NOVEMBRE/1915 in three lines. Edge: FONSON & Co. See Leipziger Münzhandlung 6, lot 4818 (for an example in bronze only). Good VF, toned.

Ex Elsen 104 (13 March 2010), lot 1378.