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Death of Sir Henry Irving, 1905, a silver medal by F. Bowcher, bust right, in the role of Tennyson's Becket, rev. MIGHTY MAGICIAN, MASTER OF THE SPELLS, etc, 39mm (BHM 3917; E 1887; Svarstad 113). Small obverse rim knock at 11 o’clock, otherwise extremely fine, rare (£60-80)

The quotation on the reverse is by the art critic John Ruskin