Coins and Historical Medals

Hawkins, E., Franks, A.W. and Grueber, H.A., Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the death of George II, 2 vols, London, 1885, 724 + 866pp (Manville 515) [2]. Publishers’ brown cloth, spines gilt; some pencil checkmarks in a 19th century hand, otherwise a clean set, vol. I with illustrated 5pp article from the Connoisseur, August 1903, entitled Stuart Medals and Royalist Badges, by P. Berney-Ficklin, and vol. II with ALS from H.A. Grueber to Mr Berney-Ficklin, 13 July 1904, bound in at p.181, and referring to the Peace of Ryswick medal, M.I. II, 181/476
£60-£80

Provenance: Ex libris Philip Berney-Ficklin.

Philip Berney-Ficklin, FSA (1849-1917), of Tasburgh Hall, Norwich; his collection of Stuart badges and medals, many of which were acquired at the Montagu sale in May 1897, was sold by Sotheby’s in November 1921