Baldwin & Sons
Auction 81 10 May 2013
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS. BRITISH MEDALS. Charles I (1625-1649) and Henrietta Maria, The Final Meeting at Kineton, Gloucestershire, Pewter Medal, 1643, by Thomas Rawlins, the King and Queen enthroned beneath sun and moon, a dragon slain beneath their feet, CERTIVS PYTHONEM INVICTI, rev legend and date in twelve lines, XIII IVL / CAROL ET MARIE ..., signed R below, 36.5mm (MI 306/130; pl XXVI, 15). Seemingly cast from a struck example, excessively rare.
The meeting took place on 13 July, the same day as the decisive Royalist victory by Lord Wilmot over Sir William Waller at the Battle of Roundway Down, near Devizes, Wiltshire. MI lists just two specimens, one of which was destroyed in a fire in 1879. A cast silver example, previously in the collection of Helen Farquhar, Glendining's, 25 April 1955, lot 218 (part), was again offered for sale by Glendining's [English Collector], 16 March 1989, lot 63a (
£820), and is now in a private collection.
Estimate: £300-400
The meeting took place on 13 July, the same day as the decisive Royalist victory by Lord Wilmot over Sir William Waller at the Battle of Roundway Down, near Devizes, Wiltshire. MI lists just two specimens, one of which was destroyed in a fire in 1879. A cast silver example, previously in the collection of Helen Farquhar, Glendining's, 25 April 1955, lot 218 (part), was again offered for sale by Glendining's [English Collector], 16 March 1989, lot 63a (
£820), and is now in a private collection.
Estimate: £300-400