Lot Archive

Lot

№ 585

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7 October 2009

Hammer Price:
£200

Parks and Gardens, London, Lambeth, Vauxhall Gardens, uniface lead trial for a badge, unsigned [by R. Yeo after W. Hogarth], Britannia standing left, holding spear, offering hand to semi-kneeling muse, shield at right, tamen inter arma below, back with traces of the arms of the School for Music, 48mm, 22.80g (D & W –; MG –; Noble II, 812; cf. Baldwin Auction 12, 1011 and DNW T6, 644). A later striking from the die in lightly rusted state, good very fine and extremely rare
£100-150

Provenance: F.W. Yeates Collection; F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Baldwin May 1923]