FERENSTEIN & SON Bronze Foundry, “Disarming the Germans in Warsaw, 1918” Medallion

bronze; diameter 18.3 cm. unsigned.
Warsaw, Adam ZAJFERT—engraver, designer; ca. 1919.
A medallion with a loop for hanging. It depicts a bas-relief scene of a group of Polish soldiers marching to the right in an attack, led by a unit commander carrying a saber and a pistol; a fragment of a fleeing German soldier’s silhouette is visible, and a spiked helmet lies abandoned on the ground.
At the bottom, the inscription: “November 11, 1918.”

Bibliography:
- Andrzej Kotecki, “Regained Independence Immortalized in Medals,” Museum of Polish History, Independence and Memory, 2017, no. 2 (58);
- M. Dubrowska, “Medallions and Plaques: Catalog of the Collections of the Historical Museum of the Capital City of Warsaw,” Warsaw 2005, p. 79, item 155.