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Lot # 440 - France. Napoléon I, 1804–1820. Lot of one hundred forty-one (141) bronze Medals from the campaigns and reign of Emperor Napoleon. Opus: D.V. Denon. Preserved in its original contemporary case bound in green leather with gilt edges and a central imperial shield on the cover, crafted by Hémon Gainier, Quai de l’Horloge No. 59, Paris (height 12 cm, width 33 cm, depth 23 cm). Bronze medals from the Denon collection commemorating the campaigns and reign of Emperor Napoléon (Histoire Métallique). The collection includes 8 trays—one without compartments and the other 7 with numbered compartments—holding bronze medals of various sizes (14–68 mm), virtually ias struck. The collection is accompanied by 6 pages of the original inventory/sales invoice (with pencil annotations) for 139 medals to a certain Captain Scartenham (?) and a handwritten list of the contents of the first 3 trays. This collection can be compared to a similar one of Napoleon’s bronze medals, published by Lisa and Joachim Zeitz in Napoleon’s Medaillen, Petersberg, 2003. The Zeitz collection was originally purchased on August 16, 1815, by a certain Mr. Palmer, about whom nothing is known. Similarly, little is known about Captain Scartenham (possibly Scaetenham), although it seems that this collection passed into the hands of someone else, and at that point, prices were probably written on the last page of the inventory, with the receipt cut from the top of the seventh page. See Zeitz, p. 13. The following matches with Zeitz have been found: Tray 1, Zeitz 1-21 (21 medals).Tray 2, Zeitz 22, 24-37, 41 (16 medals). Tray 3, Zeitz 26, 39-54 (17 medals). Tray 4, Zeitz 55-73 (19 medals). Tray 5, Zeitz 74-85, 86 (2 examples), 87-92 (20 medals). Tray 6, Zeitz 94, 95, 97, 107, 110, 111, 113, 114, 116, 119, 132, 133 (21 medals). Tray 7, Zeitz 115, 117, 118, 120-123, 125-131, 134-137, 139-141 (21 medals). Finally, Tray 8 contains 5 additional medals, including specimens from Zeitz 1, Battle of Montenotte 1796, Bramsen 400/380, La Vaccine 1804, Bramsen 1201, Heur et Malheur, 1812 token, and two specimens of Bramsen 1594, The March on Paris 1815. Forrer I, 556. The exact contents of this collection are not entirely consistent with the printed and handwritten inventory. Similarly, there are anomalies within the Zeitz set. It appears that if a particular medal was unavailable at the time of purchase, another medal could be substituted in its place. See also A. Griffiths, “The Origins of Napoleon’s Histoire Metallique” in The Medal, 16–18, 1990–91. Così si espresse Forrer sulla collezione: “Nearly all the medals, forming the Medallic History of Napoleon I, which were struck at the Paris mint, and engraved by the artists, Andrieu, Brenet, Droz, Dupré, Duvivier, Gatteaux, etc. bear Denon’s signature...”. Ex Astarte 19, 6 May 2006, lot 715.
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Closing on: 2025-06-10 13:30:00 Roma time

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