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15–18 September 2015

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Lot

№ 187

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15 September 2015

Hammer Price:
£900

Charles III (†1788), Touchpiece, Italian manufacture, probably by F. Hamerani, in silver, flagship sailing right, car · iii ·, etc, rev. St Michael slaying the dragon, edge plain, 2.38g/12h (Woolf O2/R2, 63 and 75 [Sale, lot 219]; cf. Noon 331). Pierced as usual (at bottom), extremely fine and toned, very rare £300-400

Provenance: A Small Collection of Touch-Pieces, Christie’s Auction, 18 January 1972, lot 140 (part)