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WORLD HISTORICAL MEDALS, GERMANY, Augsburg, a silver Schraubmedaille or box medal, c. 1720, by P.P. Werner, Jacob reclining under tree, angels on ladder, rev. traveller walking left, supported by an angel, the screw box containing 22 [of 23] painted miniatures in ink, watercolour and gouache from the workshop of Abraham Remshardt relating to the so-called Great Emigration of Protestants from Salzburg, 1731, 43mm, 19.81g (cf. Niemczyk 6, 301; cf. Baldwin 95, 2732) [Lot]. Very fine and very rare £500-700
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Under the Peace of Augsburg the ruler of each state could determine which religion could be practised publicly in his territory. In 1731 the archbishop of Salzburg, Anton von Firmian, decided to expel all remaining Protestants living in Salzburg, as a follow-up to a previous expulsion order given by a predecessor in 1684. Accordingly, the leaders of the Salzburg Protestants had despatched delegations to seek help from Protestant states within the Holy Roman Empire. Between April and August 1732 over 20,000 Protestants left Salzburg for Prussia, where they were settled in modern-day Lithuania. Some 10,000 more Salzburg Protestants settled in the Netherlands and in territories ruled by George II of Hanover, including the British colony of Georgia in the US, where they founded the town of Ebenezer. The painted miniatures feature August II of Saxony, the Electress Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, two local clerics and 18 biblical scenes
WORLD HISTORICAL MEDALS, GERMANY, Augsburg, a silver Schraubmedaille or box medal, c. 1720, by P.P. Werner, Jacob reclining under tree, angels on ladder, rev. traveller walking left, supported by an angel, the screw box containing 22 [of 23] painted miniatures in ink, watercolour and gouache from the workshop of Abraham Remshardt relating to the so-called Great Emigration of Protestants from Salzburg, 1731, 43mm, 19.81g (cf. Niemczyk 6, 301; cf. Baldwin 95, 2732) [Lot]. Very fine and very rare £500-700
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Under the Peace of Augsburg the ruler of each state could determine which religion could be practised publicly in his territory. In 1731 the archbishop of Salzburg, Anton von Firmian, decided to expel all remaining Protestants living in Salzburg, as a follow-up to a previous expulsion order given by a predecessor in 1684. Accordingly, the leaders of the Salzburg Protestants had despatched delegations to seek help from Protestant states within the Holy Roman Empire. Between April and August 1732 over 20,000 Protestants left Salzburg for Prussia, where they were settled in modern-day Lithuania. Some 10,000 more Salzburg Protestants settled in the Netherlands and in territories ruled by George II of Hanover, including the British colony of Georgia in the US, where they founded the town of Ebenezer. The painted miniatures feature August II of Saxony, the Electress Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, two local clerics and 18 biblical scenes