The Pavilion Collection, Commemorative Medals, George IV, visit to Hanover 1821, a pair of medals in copper and white metal, by ? J. G. Hancock, laureate bust l., rev. Hanoverian horse, electoral cap and motto on spread of National flora on single stem, HEIL DEM SEINE TREUEN HANOVERANER BESUCHENDEN KONIG 1821 (BHM.1115, R3, Suppl. P. 246, for listing in WM), 45.5mm., copper extremely fine, white metal very fine, both extremely rare (2)
*second ex Peter Earthy Collection, Baldwin's of St. James's, 26 September 2018, lot 711, bt. C. Eimer, 1982
Brown [BHM] lists the copper medal from a single specimen in the British Museum. The white metal specimen listed as 'Private Collection', is this medal. See note to lot 564.
(200-250 GBP)