France, Revolutionary Period. A Storming Of The Bastille Table Medal 1789 Archive cleaned and lacquered

cleaned and lacquered

42 mm x 60

weighing 53

with replacement scarlet ribbon

Bronze Issue (Cooly Jitman Newar S&T

France, Revolutionary Period. A Storming Of The Bastille Table Medal 1789 Archive cleaned and lacqueredIn pewter, uniface style, obverse illustrating a crowd of armed civilians with soldiers of the French Guard firing their cannons at the Bastille in the background, with smoke and flames visible on the battlements and smoke across the centre enveloping the crowd, the chains of the drawbridge broken and the inner courtyard being stormed at the far right, engraver marked "ANDRIEU. F." (Jean Bertrand Andrieu) and marked "NO. 1", inscribed "SIEGE DE LA