Baldwin's of St. James's
Auction 43 25 Mar 2020
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The Pavilion Collection, Commemorative Medals, Queen Caroline (1768-1821), of Brunswick, Accession and Return to England, uniface brass cliché medal, 1820, by ? Thomas I. Wells, laureate bust of Caroline l., her hair tied back, wearing double strand of pearls and a chain necklace, CAROLINE QUEEN OF ENGLAND, the reverse lead-filled, 55mm. (BHM.-), pierced above O of OF, very fine and extremely rare
The style and size of this piece is close to a medal of George IV, a medal also found as a cliché (BHM.1094 - attributed by him to Thomas Webb, but to Thomas I. Wells by the present cataloguers; see also lots 542 & 543). The cataloguers are aware of only a single further example, a glazed and gilt cliché medal in an ebonised black papier-maché frame with a crown suspender, this in the collection of A. Marie Sprayberry and Edward R. Voytovich [USA], and illustrated in the former's article for Persuasions On-Line (a publication of the Jane Austen Society of North America), 'Sex, Power, and Other People's Money: The Prince Regent and His Impact on Jane Austen's Life and Work', Vol. 33, No. 1, Winter 2012.
(80-120 GBP)
The style and size of this piece is close to a medal of George IV, a medal also found as a cliché (BHM.1094 - attributed by him to Thomas Webb, but to Thomas I. Wells by the present cataloguers; see also lots 542 & 543). The cataloguers are aware of only a single further example, a glazed and gilt cliché medal in an ebonised black papier-maché frame with a crown suspender, this in the collection of A. Marie Sprayberry and Edward R. Voytovich [USA], and illustrated in the former's article for Persuasions On-Line (a publication of the Jane Austen Society of North America), 'Sex, Power, and Other People's Money: The Prince Regent and His Impact on Jane Austen's Life and Work', Vol. 33, No. 1, Winter 2012.
(80-120 GBP)