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Auction 61 11 Jun 2022
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Music: Johann Baptist Cramer (1771-1858), pianist, music publisher and instrument maker, copper medal, 1845, by Benjamin Wyon, head left, rev. central head of the muse of music, names of great artists around, Raphael, Mozart and Shakespeare, etc., and emblems of poetry, painting and music, 57mm. (Ni 525; BHM.2205), good very fine; James William Gilbart, FRS (1794-1863), aged 58, white metal medal, 1853, by W.J. Taylor, bust left, rev. legend in fourteen lines, 51mm. (BHM.2512; Eimer 1476), very fine (2)
*ex Baldwin's vault
J. W. Gilbart was banker and author of works on banking. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1846 and commerce including A Practical Treatise of Banking and History and Principles of Banking. Gilbart was the first manager of the London and Westminster Bank (1833-1859), the first joint-stock banks in England, opening its first branch in Westminster on 10 March 1834.
(Estimate: 100-140 GBP)
*ex Baldwin's vault
J. W. Gilbart was banker and author of works on banking. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1846 and commerce including A Practical Treatise of Banking and History and Principles of Banking. Gilbart was the first manager of the London and Westminster Bank (1833-1859), the first joint-stock banks in England, opening its first branch in Westminster on 10 March 1834.
(Estimate: 100-140 GBP)