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Auction 40  21 Nov 2019
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Lot 535

Estimate: 200 GBP
Price realized: 400 GBP
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Commemorative Medals, Archbishop Sancroft and the Seven Bishops, silver medal, 1688, by Daniel Warou, copying George Bower, bust of Sancroft right, wearing cap and robes, rev. named medal portraits of the bishops around that of the Bishop of London, signed D. - W.F., plain edge, 51mm .(MI.623/38; Eimer 288, note; Fearon, 'Seven Bishops on Trial', The Antique Collector, July 1987, fig.17), slight edge bruise on reverse at 8 o'clock, nearly extremely fine, extremely rare
The busts depict Henry Compton (London), in centre; Francis Turner (Ely); Thomas Ken (Bath and Wells); Sir John Trelawney (Bristol); Thomas White (Peterborough); John Lake (Chichester) and William Lloyd (St Asaph). This medal is a close copy of, though considerably rarer than, Bower's medal. Warou was a Swedish medallist working in Dresden.
(200-300)
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