Esseö, Elisabeth (Erzsébet) von 1919
БОЛЬШЕВИЗМЪ ･1918･ — ･1919･ (BOLSHEVISM 1918 - 1919). Cast bronze medal, dark brown patina, 70 mm, 78.37 g. Tiny casting flaw at right breast principal figure, otherwise vorzüglich+ (extremely fine+). Very rare.
Obverse: A massive, leering, horned, bat-winged demon, arms akimbo, emerges from clouds and dominates upper field, beneath which entangled mass of humanity struggles and fights; artist's monogram, encircled, ligatured ƎE to right.
Reverse: Cyrillic title inscription bolshevism vertically in center; on either side year dates inscribed horizontally.
Cf: Schulman. 1919. La Guerre Européenne, Catalogue LXXV, p. 98: 899, pl. XX.
Cf: Frankenhuis, M. 1919(?). Catalogue of Medals - Medalets and Plaques Relative to the World War 1914 - 1919, p. 189: 1537.
Cf: Huszár, Lajos, and Béla Procopius. 1932. Medaillen- und Plakettenkunst in Ungarn, p. 201: 1942.
Cf: Jones, M. 1979. The Dance of Death: Medallic Art of the First World War, p. 25: 43.
