The Dr Jerome J. Platt Collection of 17th-Century Medals

Sir Charles Erskine of Alva, 1647, a pewter medal by A. Simon, bust left, wearing buttoned doublet with plain collar, signed as on truncation, rev. 1647, car æreskinvs eqv æt 30 in five lines across field, 36mm (Platt II, p.94, type A [A1, this item]; MI I, 330/173). Very fine and very rare £1,000-£1,200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Dr Jerome J. Platt Collection of 17th-Century Medals.

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Baldwin Auction 31, 14-15 October 2002, lot 990 [from Seaby May 1979]

Sir Charles Erskine of Alva (1615-63) was a Scottish MP and is perhaps best known for being one of the Commissioners at the Treaty of Uxbridge, an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to bring an end to the Civil War in February 1645.