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Medals
Reference:5814 'Kwai 1942-1943', Burma Railway, 1993
KWAI 1942-1943, a snake to left.
Five-skeletal figures of death, their hands joined, represent the sleepers of a railway line of interminable length, as it merges into the horizon, dense jungle either side, a snake to right; above, the baking sun in a cloudless sky.
By Ronald Searle.
Silvered-bronze, cast. 72 mm. (cast by Fattorini).
Condition: Extremely Fine
Notes:
Produced through the British Art Medal Society upon the 50th anniversary of the 'Death Railway'.
References:
The Medal (1992), No. 20.
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