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Medals of the Early Colonial Period and the European Heritage, Comte Agénor de Gasparin, a copper medal by H. Bovy, bearded bust left in high relief, rev. arms and lion supporters, 63mm. Extremely fine £70-90
Comte Agénor de Gasparin (1810-71), Protestant theologian, was the author of Esclavage et traite (1838), which, in principle, attacked the concepts of slavery. He lived in Switzerland following the 1848 revolutions in France
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