Live auction - fme_597684 - PRINTING AND STATIONERY Médaille, Jean Gutenberg, 500e anniversaire
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| Estimate : | 150 € |
| Price : | 75 € |
| Maximum bid : | 75 € |
| End of the sale : | 28 July 2020 19:05:52 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Médaille, Jean Gutenberg, 500e anniversaire
Date: (1900)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 64,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver Rudolf Bosselt
Weight : 159,6 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Belle patine marron avec de hauts reliefs sur le buste. Quelques traces de manipulation
Catalogue references :
Jehne 100
Obverse
Obverse legend : ZUR. 500. GEBURTS. FEJER - DES. JOHANES. GUTENBERG.
Obverse description : Buste de profil de Jean Gutenberg à gauche au dessus des armoiries de la ville, signé : JOS. PRINZ.
Reverse
Reverse legend : KORPER / UND STIMME LEIHT / DIESCHRIFT / DEM STUMMEN SEDANKEN / DURCH DER JAHRHUNDERTE STROM / TRÄGT - IHN DAS / REDEN - DE BLATT / ELEGIEN - F. V. SCHILLER // 1440 / 1940.
Reverse description : Figure féminine couronnant Jean Gutenberg qui regarde les machines rotatives modernes. Légende gravée en 4 lignes.
Commentary
Il s’agit de la médaille officielle de la ville de Mayence, qui a été décernée le 24 juin 1900 à l’occasion de la célébration.
Johannes Gutenberg (1400-1468)e st un imprimeur dont l’invention des caractères métalliques mobiles en Europe a été déterminante dans la diffusion des textes et du savoir.
Johannes Gutenberg (1400-1468)e st un imprimeur dont l’invention des caractères métalliques mobiles en Europe a été déterminante dans la diffusion des textes et du savoir.
Historical background
PRINTING AND STATIONERY
The printing press was known in the Far East long before it was invented in the West. In the middle of the 15th century, inspired by the processes used to manufacture playing cards and wishing to manufacture a Bible at a lower cost and in series, Gutenberg (and Johann Fuchs) developed the typographic printing process with movable type, the ink making, typesetting techniques and the printing press. Printing made rapid progress in Europe, it was introduced in France in 1469. Later progress perfected the process like lithography (late 18th century). Printers, assimilated to the body of booksellers under the Ancien Régime, were closely watched until 1881 when the law of July 29 proclaimed the complete freedom of the trade..
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