Watch List notes:

Daniel Maclise (1806–1870), special presentation glazed frosted silver medal of the Art Union of London, 1878, by A. B. Wyon, bust of Maclise l., rev. detail from Maclise's large 1842 painting, 'The Play Scene in Hamlet', 57mm. (BHM.3047; Eimer 1659; Beaulah 25), within silver rim, missing the obverse convex glass, otherwise extremely fine and reverse mint
The Maclise medal is very rare in silver, the Art Union only allotting just 30 specimens in 1878. The cataloguers do not know of any other frosted silver Art Union medals, Maclise or otherwise. Maclise's painting of 'The Play Scene in 'Hamlet' is now in the collection of the Tate Gallery, London.
(150-200 GBP)