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Sale 95
THE NEW YORK SALE
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Lot 1499 |
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The Battle of Doggersbank and the Death of Rear-Admiral Baron Gerrit Jan Wolter Bentinck (1745-1781). Silver Medal, 1781. 45 mm, by J G Holtzhey. A monument and funerary urn with military trophies, a ship at anchor beyond with flag at half-mast. Rev. Crowned altar with arms of the admiralty and military trophies around, DEUGDS BELONING. (Betts 587; vL 565; MH 632; J J Ford XIV, Stack's, 23 May 2006, 248, 249. 30.1g), Choice extremely fine. Estimate $250UP
Rear-Admiral Baron Gerrit Jan Wolter Bentinck died during the naval battle of the Doggersbank (Dogger Bank) in the North Sea, 5 August 1781, during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, part of the War of American Independence. Neither side actually prevailed but the Dutch, already allied to the United States, claimed a significant victory.
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$915 |
Lot 1500 |
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George Washington (1732-1799). White Metal Medal, 1789. 17.6g, 35.5 mm, of British manufacture, by Charles Twigg. Half-length bust right, in uniform, GEORGE WASHINGTON. Rev. Legend in nine lines, GENERAL OF THE AMERICAN ARMIES 1775 RESIGN'D THE COMMAND 1783 ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 1789. (Baker 65). Very rare. Extremely fine. Estimate $650UP
For Twigg, cf BHM III, p.305.
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$620 |
Lot 1501 |
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George Washington (1732-1799). Daniel Eccleston's Bronze 'Tribute' Medal, 1805. 75.5 mm, 150.2g, by Thomas Webb. His armoured bust right. Rev. Standing figure of an American Indian, THE LAND WAS OURS, further legend in three concentric lines around. (Baker 85). Edge bruised, pierced at top. About very fine. Estimate $300UP
From the collection of medals formed by William Victor Royle Baldwin (known as Roy or Uncle Roy), one of A H Baldwin & Sons Ltd founder's three sons, he was born in 1893.
Daniel Eccleston had traveled extensively in the United States, he had "sailed down Lake Champlain and Lake George, in a birch-bark canoe, with the King of the Connawaga nation …" and had met Washington. He returned to Lancaster from where, in 1794, he issued a Halfpenny token bearing his portrait.
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$260 |
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