Professor Éric Cassaët Medal – Bordeaux – Signed by Jean Chaveron
In silver , in its box
Weight: 87.34 g
Diameter: 49,5 mm
Rare medal.
Obverse:
Profile bust to the left of Professor Éric Cassaët (1863-1940), professor of pathology and general therapeutics at the Bordeaux Faculty of Medicine, author of several works including one in 1914 on posterior pericarditis .
Circular inscription:
• PROFESSEVR • E • CASSAËT •
• 1933 •
Reverse:
The Centaur Chiron and Asclepius , Greek god of medicine, holding his staff.
Inscriptions on both sides: ΧΕΙΡΩΝ ( Chiron ) and ΑΣΚΛΗΠΙΟΣ ( Asclepius )
Signature: CHAVERON (Jean Élie Chaveron, born October 27, 1889 in Bordeaux (Gironde) and died April 26, 1954 in Caudéran (Gironde). Based in Bordeaux. Student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the École des Arts Décoratifs. Author of more than ten war memorials, most in collaboration with his friend René Buthaud: Coutras, Jonzac, Langor, Le Bouscat, Parentis-en-Born, La Teste-de-Buch.)
At the bottom:
AV MAITRE
A L’AMI
Edge:
Cornucopia hallmark (Paris Mint) + 2 SILVER
