Auction Catalogue

2 & 3 April 2014

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Ancient, British and World Coins, Tokens, Jetons, Medals and Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 1017

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3 April 2014

Hammer Price:
£220

Medals, Jamaica, Death of William Knibb, 1845, a white metal medal by J. Davis, similar, rev. monument, 41mm (BHM 1878; Roehrs 1556). Extremely fine £200-250

Provenance: Joseph Lepczyk Auction 44 (Lansing, USA), 24-5 February, 1978, lot 1722.

The neo-classical monument which still survives, now in the Knibb Memorial Chapel, was carved in Birmingham and the three heads depicted on it are Granville Sharpe and William Wilberforce, to left and right, with Sturge in the centre