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Click here to subscribeA collection of items from Milton Lockhart House comprising a cast bronze bell, dated 1830, 38cm high, a carved oak interior panel of scrolling acanthus leaves forming a heart shape (mounted on a board), 88cm x 69cm, an oak newel post of square section, carved with acanthus leaves 42cm x 12.5cm and a watercolour by Hunter of the entrance gates, 21.5cm x 27.5cm (4) Provenance: From Milton Lockhart House, Clyde Valley, Lanarkshire
Set of 4 Israeli medals, Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty, 1979, Israel Government Coins and Medals Corp. Comprising of a 900 gold medal (diameter: 35 mm, weight: 30 grams), two 935 silver medals (diameter of smaller medal: 45 mm, diameter of larger medal: 59 mm, total weight: 162 grams) and a bronze medal (diameter: 59 mm). Given in original wooden box.
Germany, Augsburg, Alexander Schwarz (1478-c.1532), uniface bronze medal by Hans Schwarz (1518), alexandri svvartz avgvstani aet ann xl, bust left aged 40, wearing hat and cloak with high collar, unclear monogram (?) on truncation, 68.8mm (Kastenholz 25; Habich 124, pl. 19, 2), traces of solder on the reverse, otherwise an extremely fine contemporary cast and very rare. Hans Schwarz is credited with the introduction of medals as an art form into Germany and the present piece dates from the period when he produced his first series of medals often depicting individuals attending the Augsburg Diet in 1518. Many of Hans Schwarz’s sketches have survived and the present medal is based on one of the sitter, now in the Staatsbibliothek, Bamberg (Inv. No. IA 38; Kastenholz p. 246, fig. 151). Other specimens of the medal exist in Augsburg, Berlin, Paris and Vienna – and bear the unexplained incised monogram (?) on the truncation of the bust, as present here. The example in the British Museum has been enamelled and so too was the example in the Michael Hall collection (lot 2476) and a specimen without the outer legend which featured in the Münzen und Medaillen sale 90, 14 June 2000, lot 444. According to Habich (who wrongly dated the medal to 1521) Alexander Schwarz was a relative of the medallist, a builder in Augsburg who appears in the Schwarz family portrait painting by Hans Holbein the Elder now in the Maximiliansmuseum, Augsburg.
Italy, Florence, Cosimo III de’ Medici, uniface bronze medal by Soldani, bust right, 96mm including border (cf. Vannel/Toderi 35), pierced, contemporary cast, very fine; and bronze medals of Virginia de’ Medici and Giuliano de’ Medici, Archbishop of Pisa (Vannel/Toderi 314, 319), rough late casts (3)
Italy, Giovanna Albizzi Tornabuoni (died 1488), bronze medal, attributed to Niccolò Fiorentino, bust right, rev., the Three Graces named as Chastity, Beauty and Love, 80mm (Hill 1021; Currency of Fame 45), old cast, very fine; together with Roman bronze coin of Maximinus I (AD 235-238) from Tarsus depicting the Three Graces from antiquity, 35mm. (SNG Levante 1096), fine and rare (2). As Pollard mentions in Currency of Fame, the Three Graces symbolised what was good and most civilised in life; they found their origins in antiquity. The closest precise parallel to the reverse of the present medal is a Roman terra-cotta lamp (mentioned by Spencer in StHistArt 21, pp. 202-3) but the general type is found from time to time in Roman coinage - such as the 3rd century coin offered with the medal in this lot. Giovanna married Lorenzo Tornabuoni and died in childbirth in 1488. Her portrait is on the central figure of the Three Graces with her back to the viewer.
Victoria, Construction of Tower Bridge Commenced, 21 June 1886, medal in bronze-gilt, silver and enamels presented by the City of London to mark the occasion; in the form of a crowned wreath suspended from a ribbon with City of London brooch for wearing, the obverse with central medallion of a view of the completed bridge raised to allow passage of a schooner, memorial stone laid 21st june 1886 around and below, rev., Prince of Wales’ feathers, width 30mm, extremely fine
Germany, First Word War German Expressionist Art Medals (2) comprising (i) “Eingeben der Kanone” (Feeding the Canons), uniface bronze medal by Ludwig Geis, c. 1917, men dragging carts with ammunition, loading and firing three enormous field guns; edge stamped c. poellath schrobenh[ausen], 62mm (Ernsting 56; Frankenhuis 1365; Bernhart 104; Jones, Art of the Medal 404), very fine and rare; and (ii) “Europas Selbstmord” (European Suicide), bronze medal, 1917, by Karl Goetz, Europa and bull crushing armies, rev., America and Japan gathering coins from a fountain, 85mm (Kienast 199; Frankenhuis 1476), very fine (2)
Italy, late casts of 15th century medals, comprising pieces by Matteo de’ Pasti, Cristoforo di Geremia, Sperandio (3), attributed to Filarete (Diva Faustina) etc, 60-106mm, 9 in bronze, 2 in lead, 1 in plaster, many fine; Germany, bronze uniface reproductions of renaissance medals of Ursula Ligsalz, 122mm and Elizabeth Kreler, 58mm (cf. Currency of Fame 93a and 103a), extremely fine (14)
Miscellaneous 18th-19th Century bronze medals (9), Austria (7), Birth of Archduke Leopold Johann 1716, unsigned; Election of Charles VII, 1742, Coronation of Charles VII at Frankfurt, 1742, both by Westner; Joseph II and Frederick II of Prussia at the camp at Neustadt, 1770; Thomas Gundacker, former Austrian Finance minister, undated (1776), by Von Berckel; Peace of Luneville, 1801, by Guillemard; Visit of Francis I to the Paris Mint, 1814, by Gayrard; Cologne, Archbishop Joseph Clemens, Celebrations of French Victories, 1712, the Archbishop’s Resolve, undated (1722), both by Le Breton and Bernard; together with Saxony, Death of Maurice of Saxony, 1750, in white metal, by J.C. Muller, very fine or better (10)
Italy, Francesco Niconizio of Curzola (1501-1549), lawyer, bronze medal by Giulio della Torre, bust left, rev., Mercury standing, pointing up to the dates of a palm tree, 111.5mm (Hill 581; Arm. I, 134, 25; Toderi/Vannel 523), with some scratches in the fields, a very fine old cast with brown patina. A contemporary cast of this medal was sold in these rooms in 2005 as part of the Gaines collection and again in 2009 from the Stack collection and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Miscellaneous World Coins (many hundreds), including: Canada, cent, 1899 and Hungary, commemorative 5 korona, 1907, extremely fine, Mexico, 8 reales, 1759 mm, Straits Settlements, 20 cents, 1878 and U.S.A., half-dime, 1835, this very fine or better, others mixed grades; together with miscellaneous mainly 19th and 20th century English copper, bronze, cupro-nickel etc. (many hundreds), earlier issues mostly well circulated, the post 1940 issues mostly better; also Russian banknotes (6), including 5,000 roubles, 1919, with text in 7 languages and 1937 Lenin type 1 chervonetz and 3 chervonetsa (Pick 105, 202, 203), fine or better; and a custom-made coin cabinet (lot). Please note that the buyer of this large lot is asked to make arrangements for its collection as it is not suitable for regular shipping.
Miscellaneous British and other medals: William IV, Coronation, 1831, bronze medal by J. Barber, 58mm (B.H.M. 1477), virtually as struck, in case of issue; other medals (24), mostly 19th Century white metal commemoratives but including silver award medal for the 1911 Coronation, mixed grades and including some old copies but three or four extremely fine or better, one cased; and various coins etc. (about 140), including minor Roman bronzes, poor to fine, Britannia groats of 1830s and 40s (23), one 1839 extremely fine, others fair to fine, Wood’s halfpenny, 1723, very fine and 1977 Cook Islands silver $25, mixed grades and quality, also including purses (4), one apparently with gold clasp (lot)
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