World Medals: Chaplain, Jules-Clément (French, 1839-1909); b. Mortagne-au-Perche FRANCE, Commission internationale sur le système métrique et sa diffusion [International Commission on the Metric System and its Diffusion], 1874 [struck 1937], a bronze medal after J.-C. Chaplain adapted for the Première Conference de Métrologie Pratique, seated female representing Science seated at front centre, surrounded by other robed females representing Europe, Asia and America, measuring instruments at sides, rev. legends, edge impressed bronze and cornucopia, 100mm, 455.27g (cf. Maier 64; cf. Mazerolle 10; cf. BDM 1, 402; cf. Coll. R. Marx 180; cf. MDC e13, 955; cf. DNW 169, 1140). Extremely fine £150-£200 Provenance: Baldwin Auction 90, 24 September 2014, lot 1940. The Commission internationale du mètre was established in 1869 to determine a new standard metre. A competition to design a medal for the members of the Commission was held and Chaplain declared the victor in February 1873, winning 5,000 francs in the process. The original dies, however, were not finished until 1875. The conference commemorated on the medal took place in Paris on 4 July 1937