guardian57 Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 Hi everyone, my name is Maximilian, and I am a collector of St.Christopher medals used on early automobile dashboards (between 1900s to 1930s). My collection is focalized on medals with French inscriptions or engraved by French artists. As a collector I love to research on the history of these pieces and their artists, and that is why I am contacting you. Within the signed medals I have, some of them are signed by artists I couldn't find any information about. It will be a real help if you can give me some information about them. I was looking for their complete name and dates of birth and death, or part of this information. In case you can help me, here goes a list of them, based on the signature found on the medals: ARNAULT (medals of this artist were sold by French firm of automobile accessories Mestre&Blatge) BORY, J. --> could be Jenö Bory? BOUIX BRACKENIER, E. BRIAND, H. CASSON, M. CONTAUX, GEORGES --> I can't find information of dates of birth and death DE HELLY, L. MERY, ANDRE --> I can't find information of dates of birth and death PACCAGNINI, C. PENIN REIMON RUFFONY TAIRAC Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 Hello Max and welcome to CoinPeople. Sounds like an interesting collection. Hope someone can help with some info for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guardian57 Posted January 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 Thanks. It will be a real help for me. Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank Posted February 2, 2010 Report Share Posted February 2, 2010 Hi --I think your project is interesting. I've been trying to find more info on these engravers, but so far with little luck. I've been limiting my Google searches to French-language sites, if that's something you haven't tried yet. I'll keep trying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guardian57 Posted February 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2010 Hello Frank. Thanks for your message. I asked everyone I know and everysite in any lenguage regarding medals... but nobody could give information about them. Last week, a French medal collector, consider it would be a possible solution to check at the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Do you have it? It has 14 volumes and cost around us$1500!!!! Well, once again thanks for trying. Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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