"One-Medal Medalist"

very nice medal

Medal-riddle. Signed G. de Festetics. 1922. With signature Copyrighted.
Bronze. D=64 mm. Uniface. MACo.


There is information on the Internet about two candidates under the initial of the name. One worked in Gorham.
Johnson indicates that the obverse of the medal is a copy of the inaugural medal by Henry Kirke Bush-Brown.
The image of the medal in the Johnson database is from 1960 (the MACo archives also contain this information 1960-024). There is no information about the medal for 1922 (the available catalog does not contain entry 1922-048.)



In the auction catalogs you can find information that the medal was also in silver.


Questions:
G.?
MACo 1922 entry?
What medal is the basis anyway?
The letter V (United) looks quite unusual, doesn't it?

P.S. Please, write on the merits of the questions.

It is difficult to write when I do not have the answers.

Best I can offer is that the V was the original U, which is why W is not call double-V. A throw-back to the original Latin, I suppose.

It seems to me it is used to make something look important, official, or more sophisticated. An example is our COVRT HOVSE downtown.

For what it is worth, it was used on the obverse of the US Peace dollar: IN GOD WE TRVST.

I discovered an interesting fact. I don't know, however, how systematic it is. American women sculptors often are the authors of only one medal.
There are already 4 examples.
Of course, there are examples to the contrary.

UPD: It would be more correct to say which examples there are more of.