Baldwin & Sons
Argentum Auction Fall 2013 2 November 2013
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WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS. GERMANY. Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm I (1688-1713-1740), the Salzburg Emigrants, Silver Box Medal, undated and unsigned [1732], containing a complete set of 17 hand-painted roundels, explaining the history; the medal, Christ watches over an emigrant family leaving their country, legend in scroll above, "Gehe aus Deinem Vatterland", rev the Emperor standing right, with two officials, greets the emigrants, legend in scroll above, "Die König follen Dei / ne Pfleger feyn. Efaie 49", the interior lid with a map of the Salzburg area, the base with a map of "Hertzogth" and "Lithauen", 44.5mm (Karl Roll, Die Schaumünzen auf die Salzburger Emigration [1925], IV / XIII). Medal and contents extremely fine, the roundels retaining their original rich colour.
The roundels have a single piece of fruit or flower on the reverse-sides and are linked in a 'tree' formation of a group of five and three groups of four, the titles are as follows:-; 1 – "Aus dem Dienst=Hause"; 2 – "Ich habe noch andere Schraffe"; 3 – "Der Herr hat semen Engeln befohl. über"; 4 – " Offenbahrgeng der Warheit"; 5 – "Trinket alle darau"; 6 – "Versiglung der Warheit"; 7 – "Edict wider die Lutheraner. anno 1588"; 8 – "Vatter und Mutter verlassen mich"; 9 – "Zehle meine Flucht"; 10- " Suchetin der Schrifft"; 11 – "Verbander brand im Herzen"; 12 – "Gedencket unserer bande"; 13 – "Zeige uns deine Weige"; 14 – "Wir Segnen eüch im Namen das Herrn"; 15 – Du has Wart des euzgen Lebens"; 16 – "eyd bereit zur Ver=antworbarg"; 17 – Wielieblich sind der ne Wohnungngen".
A photocopy of Roll's article is sold with the lot
Estimate: £400-600
The roundels have a single piece of fruit or flower on the reverse-sides and are linked in a 'tree' formation of a group of five and three groups of four, the titles are as follows:-; 1 – "Aus dem Dienst=Hause"; 2 – "Ich habe noch andere Schraffe"; 3 – "Der Herr hat semen Engeln befohl. über"; 4 – " Offenbahrgeng der Warheit"; 5 – "Trinket alle darau"; 6 – "Versiglung der Warheit"; 7 – "Edict wider die Lutheraner. anno 1588"; 8 – "Vatter und Mutter verlassen mich"; 9 – "Zehle meine Flucht"; 10- " Suchetin der Schrifft"; 11 – "Verbander brand im Herzen"; 12 – "Gedencket unserer bande"; 13 – "Zeige uns deine Weige"; 14 – "Wir Segnen eüch im Namen das Herrn"; 15 – Du has Wart des euzgen Lebens"; 16 – "eyd bereit zur Ver=antworbarg"; 17 – Wielieblich sind der ne Wohnungngen".
A photocopy of Roll's article is sold with the lot
Estimate: £400-600