The Puddester Collection (Part I)

East India Company, Madras Presidency, Reformation 1807-18, silver Quarter-Pagoda, second issue, type V/XVI, seven-tiered Gopuram of a temple flanked by 9 stars either side, surrounded by ribbon inscribed quarte · pagoda ·, lettering of mixed sizes, pau hun phuli [Quarter of a star pagoda], partly-shaded oval buckle with cross tongue, rev. Vishnu holding sword in left hand, rising from a lotus flower, surrounded by two concentric circles of pellets, flanked by 11 pellets on left and 9 pellets on right, no pellet above or below Vishnu, legend in Tamil and Telugu, kal vara kun · kal vara hun [Quarter of a star pagoda], 10.53g/12h (Prid. – [not in Sale]; Stevens 3.216; cf. KM. 352). Some deposit on edge, otherwise very fine and extremely rare with the legend error £700-£900

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Puddester Collection.

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Taisei/Baldwin/Gillio Auction 28 (Singapore), 4 March 1999, lot 1015.

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