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Sir Walter Scott bronzed copper Specimen "Death" Medal 1832 SP64 PCGS, BHM-1576, Eimer-1262. By W. Bain and B. R. Faulkner(FORRESTS DIRIXIT). Edge: Plain. 49.5mm. 56.23gm. SIR WALTER - SCOTT BART:. Head, left, signed below truncation / LADY OF THE LAKE/ CANTO I ST XVII (in exergue). Scene from, The Lady of the Lake, signed in exergue: FORRESTS (left) and FAULKNER (right). Housed in an oversized holder.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), novelist and poet, born in Edinburgh and son of Walter Scott (1729-1799), writer to the Signet. Scott made many excursions into the Scottish countryside collecting ballads. A prolific writer of songs, ballads and novels set in Scotland, the greatest of these latter being Waverly, Rob Roy and Redgauntlet. Considered to be one of the greatest novelists, he was sometimes able by means of a strict regiment, to write a novel in three months. In his later years, Scott was forced to work extremely hard in order to repay debts of some £130,000 for which he was liable as a result of the bad management of his estate and the ruin of his publishers. Both his novels and his health suffered as a result of this desire to meet the creditors and the death of his wife and his grandson in 1831 dealt Scott a blow from which he never really recovered. In 1820 (1st April) Scott was granted the dignity of Baronet and it is possible that this event was the reason for the issue of this medal. (B.H.M. Vol. 1).
HID02901242017
Estimate: 250-350 USD
Sir Walter Scott bronzed copper Specimen "Death" Medal 1832 SP64 PCGS, BHM-1576, Eimer-1262. By W. Bain and B. R. Faulkner(FORRESTS DIRIXIT). Edge: Plain. 49.5mm. 56.23gm. SIR WALTER - SCOTT BART:. Head, left, signed below truncation / LADY OF THE LAKE/ CANTO I ST XVII (in exergue). Scene from, The Lady of the Lake, signed in exergue: FORRESTS (left) and FAULKNER (right). Housed in an oversized holder.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), novelist and poet, born in Edinburgh and son of Walter Scott (1729-1799), writer to the Signet. Scott made many excursions into the Scottish countryside collecting ballads. A prolific writer of songs, ballads and novels set in Scotland, the greatest of these latter being Waverly, Rob Roy and Redgauntlet. Considered to be one of the greatest novelists, he was sometimes able by means of a strict regiment, to write a novel in three months. In his later years, Scott was forced to work extremely hard in order to repay debts of some £130,000 for which he was liable as a result of the bad management of his estate and the ruin of his publishers. Both his novels and his health suffered as a result of this desire to meet the creditors and the death of his wife and his grandson in 1831 dealt Scott a blow from which he never really recovered. In 1820 (1st April) Scott was granted the dignity of Baronet and it is possible that this event was the reason for the issue of this medal. (B.H.M. Vol. 1).
HID02901242017
Estimate: 250-350 USD