Watch List notes:

*Antonio Selvi (1679-1753), Alamanno Tommaso Pazzi (1647-1735), bronze medal (1735), bust right, aged 88, rev., the famous Scoppio del Carro carriage decorated with the Pazzi arms; signed below, a.s.f, 87.3mm (VT 190; Rizzini 1174), very fine and rare [ex Clifford collection]. The medal names Pazzi as a Senator of Florence and Prior of Urbino and was cast in the year of his death, 1735. The reverse relates to the famous annual ceremony in the Piazza Duomo, Florence when fireworks are exploded on the Pazzi carriage on Easter Sunday set off by a mechanical dove that flies down a wire from the high altar of the Duomo. The spectacular ceremony continues to this day. (500 - 700)