Bordeaux Savings Bank plaque medal – Signed by Henri Dubois
Beautiful and rare bronze plaque
Weight: 116.5g
Dimensions: 57 x 75.5 mm
Obverse:
Three standing women , allegories symbolizing work, abundance and savings. The latter stands on a platform, a book in one hand and offering a bouquet to the other two. A cornucopia pours its coins onto the steps of the platform. In the background, a table and a piece of furniture on which books are placed and where piles and purses of coins are stored.
At the bottom:
CAISSE D’EPARGNE DE BORDEAUX
FONDEE EN 1819
Signature: HENRI • DUBOIS.
Reverse:
In the sky, the crowned arms of Bordeaux (Gules to the castle of four crenellated towers covered with silver, harrowed and topped with a bell tower of the same bearing a silver bell, all masoned with sand, surmounted by a gold leopard, placed on waves of moving azure from the point and charged with a silver crescent; on the chief sewn in azure sewn with fleur-de-lis or.)
View of Bordeaux , the Garonne , the Pont de Pierre , the Porte de Bourgogne, the Grosse Cloche , the bell tower of the Saint-Paul church , the Saint-André cathedral
Cartridge attributed to:
E. LAPARRA
ADMINISTRATEUR
1905
Signature: H•DUBOIS
Edge:
Cornucopia hallmark (Paris Mint) + BRONZE
