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Auction 49  5 Oct 2021
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Lot 1240

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Admiral Lord Nelson, Nelson's Victories, a set of four medallets, in white metal, produced c. 1805, unsigned but perhaps H. Kettle, each with uniformed bust of Nelson l., rev. all different, for St. Vincent, Aboukir, Copenhagen & Trafalgar, with details in six-line inscriptions, 20mm. (BHM 592 [set], individually 437, 454, 511 & 591; Hardy 3, 12, 24 & 49; Milford Haven 514-17), good very fine and especially rare thus; together with a previously unrecorded brass mule of the medallet for Copenhagen, the reverse as issued; the obverse with dove of peace flying above a terrestrial globe, 20mm. (cf. BHM 519/520), somewhat scuffed but very fine and interesting (5)
The obverse is from a medallet celebrating the 'Preliminaries for the Peace of Amiens', 1801, one of a set of four possibly by H. Kettle and possibly for Thomason. Intriguingly, the only other comparable mule – albeit for Aboukir but with yet another different obverse – known to the cataloguer was published in A. H. Baldwin & Sons, auction 56, 7 May 2008 (lot 3045, part).
(250-300 GBP)
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