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Quebec Medals Lot

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:25.00 CAD Estimated At:100.00 - 120.00 CAD
Quebec Medals Lot
SOLD
25.00CAD+ (5.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2017 Nov 25 @ 18:16UTC-4 : AST/EDT

Buyer’s Premiums will be added on all items as per the Terms & Conditions of the sale. Invoices will be emailed out following the Coin Cabinet Collector Show.
VEN. M. AB INCARN. PVRELLAS
ADJVSTITIAM$ ERVDIENS / MVLIEREM FORTEM QVIS INVENIET (The Ursuline Monastery and Inner Garden / Ursuline Convent of Quebec City—founded in Italy in 1535, and established in Canada in 1639), bronze, in case of issue as was made by Stabilimento SPa Stefano Johnson Co. Milano : 1836 - founded by Stefano Johnson. He struck his first medal in the Milanese workshop of his father, Giacomo Johnson; Giacomo had recently moved from Birmingham, England a era brief period of activity in Lyon, France.
Stefano's son Federico Johnson, employed medalists from the Milan Mint (closed 1887) and producing medals himself to commemorate Italian historical events, religious events, industrial, commercial and financial activity; products were exported by his son Stefano Johnson II and his grandson Cesare Johnson. 1943 - their workshop was destroyed in air-raids; Cesare built new premises in Milan; the company produced medals in collabora on with Italian sculptors as Emil- io Greco, Luciano Minguzzi, E. Fazzini, F. Bodini, E. Manfrini, Arnaldo Pomodoro and V. Croce . 1990s - Riccardo Johnson, Mariangela Johnson and her husband, Roberto Pasquale continued the work; and Breton Token #619 / CT-81-16- 1890 St. Leon mineral water co. Limited mineral springs St. Leon Quebec good for one glass Token. Diameter 26mm (holed for pendant use)