Post by: Rabenauge on December 22, 2019, 08:48:41 AM
Esseö, Elisabeth (Erzsébet) von. 1916.
･M･VON･HORTHY･KOM･S･M･S･NOVARA･ (Miklós von Horthy, commander of SMS Novara). Cast yellow bronze, 38.0 mm; 19.4 g; vorzüglich (extra-fine), slightly worn surface. Scarce.
Obverse: head-and-neck profile portrait to left, dolphin below; artist's monogram, encircled, ligatured ƎE to right; title legend around rim; pearled border.
Reverse: battle cruiser, full front, firing to left, above waves, legend ･ANO･D･ - MCMXVI･ (anno domini - 1916) top edge; pearled border.
Cf: Schulman. 1918. La Guerre Européenne, Catalogue LXX, p. 125: 1416 (medallist not credited).
Cf: Frankenhuis, M. 1919(?). Catalogue of Medals - Medalets and Plaques Relative to the World War 1914 - 1919, p. 54: 389 (medallist not credited).
Cf: Huszár, Lajos, and Béla Procopius. 1932. Medaillen- und Plakettenkunst in Ungarn, p. 199: 1921; plate XXVIII.
Cf: Kluge, B., and B. Weisser. 2014. Gold gab ich für Eisen, p. 109: A 25 (iron example).
Commemorates Horthy's command of the light cruiser SMS Novara in the Battle of the Strait of Otranto, the largest battle of the war in the Adriatic and a victory for the Austro-Hungarian naval forces. Following the First World War, Horthy became regent of Hungary, serving until the German occupation of Hungary in 1944.