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Auction 8  20 Sep 2017
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Lot 419

Estimate: 1500 GBP
Price realized: 1300 GBP
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Commemorative Medals, Thomas Wriothesley, (1607-1667), 4th Earl of Southampton, Lord High Treasurer, 1660-1667, cast silver medal, by Abraham and Thomas Simon, 1664, bust left wearing skull cap and gown, his hair over his collar, the field slightly stippled, rev. THOMAS COMES SOVTHAMPTONÆ SVMNVS ANGLIÆ THESAVRARIVS & MDCLXIIII, 42mm. (MI.502/137; Eimer 227: Hill & Pollard [1978], pl 30, 4; Platt II, 326; Foley 449), an excellent and contemporary cast portrait, extremely rare
*bt. Spink, 13 February, 1984.
The cataloguers believe this to be a contemporary cast of excellent quality, though there is some softness of detail and the signature on the truncation is weak.
The Alan Irvine Collection of Historical and Artistic Medals (1500-2000 GBP)
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