World Medals: Bazor, Lucien-Georges (French, 1889-1974); b. Paris FRANCE, Exposition Coloniale Internationale, Paris, 1931, an Art Déco silver medal by L.-G. Bazor, Marianne greets figures representing North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa and Indo-China under the leaves of a chestnut tree, rev. plan of the Expo in the Bois de Vincennes, edge impressed 2 argent and cornucopia, 68mm, 151.02g (Maier 330 [Sale, lot 249]; Ruedas 24; CGMP p.30; cf. Spink 228, 291; cf. Album 43, 2236; cf. DNW M14, 1275). Minor marks on edge, otherwise good very fine, very rare in silver; in original red gilt-blocked case of issue, lid in gilt ‘Commission de Contrôle de la Circulation Monétaire’ £240-£300 The primary goal of the Exposition Coloniale Internationale was to bring peoples from the wide French colonial empire together in the capital city in order to educate the French nation as to the importance of their colonies. The exposition, occupying 500 acres in the Bois de Vincennes, opened on 6 May 1931 and by the time it closed in November some 8 million people had visited it