The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 11, March 18, 2007, Article 21

CIRCLE OF FRIENDS OF THE MEDALLION ARTICLE PUBLISHED

E-Sylum subscriber Sam Pennington, publisher of the Maine Antique 
Digest, has written a well-illustrated article on the twelve medals 
issued by the Circle of Friends of the Medallion from 1909 to 1915.

"Collectors looking for an undervalued field might well consider the 
American art medal. Why? A Belgian Web site (www.artmedal.be/) provides 
the artistic part of the answer: "Designed to be held in the hand, medals 
represent the ultimate in portable art and are often miniature sculptural 
masterpieces." Prices realized at auctions provide the financial side of 
the answer.

"Art medals are in a strange limbo. Coin collectors are not interested 
in them, nor are art collectors, despite the fact that art medals were 
done by the best sculptors of the day: Paul Manship, Victor D. Brenner, 
John Flanagan, James Earle Fraser, Augustus Saint-Gaudens among them. 
With few exceptions, prices for works by well-known sculptors sold in 
the medals trade do not come close to those asked in the sculpture 
trade."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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