Lot Archive

Lot

№ 297

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10 May 2007

Hammer Price:
£210

British historical medals, James III, a silver-plated touchpiece, Italian manufacture, three-masted ship sailing right, rev. St Michael slaying dragon, 19.5mm, 2.93g (Woolf 35, O1/R1; MI II, 316/140). Very fine and toned, very rare (£180-220)

Provenance:
Helen Farquhar Collection, Glendining Auction, 25 April 1955, lot 195 (part) [from Spink September 1906]
C.F. Noon Collection, Spink Auction 165, 8 October 2003, lot 329