Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 159 6 Mar 2021
View prices realized
► Sale information
Find similar lots
Papers on the Nini Moulds
Des Méloizes, Albert. OBSERVATIONS SUR LES MOULES DES MÉDAILLONS DE JEAN-BAPTISTE NINI. [bound with] LES MOULES EN TERRE CUITE DES MÉDAILLONS DE JEAN-BAPTISTE NINI. Photocopies of these two rare works, bound together in one volume. Small 8vo, modern brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. (34) leaves, including 6 featuring illustrations [see comments]. Annotated in pencil by Richard Margolis; earlier annotations reproduced from the example in the library of the Musée Monétaire, Paris, from which this photocopy was produced. Fine. A bound photocopy of two rare papers by Albert des Méloizes, in which he first discussed the moulds from which Jean-Baptiste Nini produced his terra cotta medallions. The first paper is discussed in the lot description above. The second paper first appeared in the Mémoires de la Société des antiquaires du Centre (Bourges, 1869, pages 307–325 and plates I–VI). To quote Richard Margolis, "This extremely valuable paper is insufficiently well known, due to the great rarity of the 1869 offprint, published following its original appearance the preceding year in a relatively obscure journal. It describes no fewer than forty of Nini's moulds, illustrating thirty-eight of them on six plates of line drawings [lithographs]. Two of the moulds are Franklin portraits: the grand module long flowing hair type with Latin legend and Arabic date (des Méloizes 33), and a petit module high relief fur cap medallion (des Méloizes 34). The line drawings are portrayed as if they were medallions rather than moulds: that is, the legends are not retrograde, and the portraits face opposite to the direction that they face on the moulds." Margolis searched for original printings of these papers for many years without success: the present volume is his working copy, and includes his annotations.
Des Méloizes, Albert. OBSERVATIONS SUR LES MOULES DES MÉDAILLONS DE JEAN-BAPTISTE NINI. [bound with] LES MOULES EN TERRE CUITE DES MÉDAILLONS DE JEAN-BAPTISTE NINI. Photocopies of these two rare works, bound together in one volume. Small 8vo, modern brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. (34) leaves, including 6 featuring illustrations [see comments]. Annotated in pencil by Richard Margolis; earlier annotations reproduced from the example in the library of the Musée Monétaire, Paris, from which this photocopy was produced. Fine. A bound photocopy of two rare papers by Albert des Méloizes, in which he first discussed the moulds from which Jean-Baptiste Nini produced his terra cotta medallions. The first paper is discussed in the lot description above. The second paper first appeared in the Mémoires de la Société des antiquaires du Centre (Bourges, 1869, pages 307–325 and plates I–VI). To quote Richard Margolis, "This extremely valuable paper is insufficiently well known, due to the great rarity of the 1869 offprint, published following its original appearance the preceding year in a relatively obscure journal. It describes no fewer than forty of Nini's moulds, illustrating thirty-eight of them on six plates of line drawings [lithographs]. Two of the moulds are Franklin portraits: the grand module long flowing hair type with Latin legend and Arabic date (des Méloizes 33), and a petit module high relief fur cap medallion (des Méloizes 34). The line drawings are portrayed as if they were medallions rather than moulds: that is, the legends are not retrograde, and the portraits face opposite to the direction that they face on the moulds." Margolis searched for original printings of these papers for many years without success: the present volume is his working copy, and includes his annotations.