Gymnastics / Sézanne / Roubaix / Enghien / Mery-sur-Oise - Lot 135

Gymnastics / Sézanne / Roubaix / Enghien / Mery-sur-Oise Set of 4 medals combining gymnastics and militaria, including: - Silver plated metal medal with a loop. Obverse: “Presented by the Etoile de Sézanne,” featuring a parallel bar, a pommel horse, dumbbells, and laurel leaves / Reverse: laurel-framed inscription “Regional Gymnastics Festival, May 19, 1878,” diameter 5 cm (oxidized) - Gold-plated metal medal with a loop. Obverse: A bugle, a flag, and athletic and military equipment, surrounded by the inscription “8th Regional Gymnastics Festival, Nord-Pas-de-Calais” / Reverse: “City of Roubaix. Festival of August 7 and 8, 1887,” diameter 3.2 cm (oxidized) - Bronze medal. Obverse: same design as the previous one, signed A. Desaide / Reverse: City of Méry-sur-Oise, August 16, 1893, diam. 4.2 cm - Silver plated medal with a loop. Obverse: classical scene combining warriors and athletes, surrounded by “Skill, Strength, Agility” / Reverse: “Enghien Gymnastics Festival, Regional Celebration, July 24, 1904,” signed by Fischer, diameter 5 cm The idea of rematches permeated all sporting events (“In the distance, a bugle sounds the charge”)