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Categories • Stack's January 2005 → The Americana Sale → The Gilbert Steinberg Collection → The Medals of Benjamin Franklin → Classic Franklin Medals |
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Lot # |
Description |
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Hammer Price |
| 2256 |
Benjamin Franklin Oak Tree Medal, 1777
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EF |
$3,000.00
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Bronze, 45.4mm. Betts 547, Fuld FR.M.NL.6. Extremely Fine or better. Obv. Bust ¾ l. in loose turban-like stocking cap, possibly an English rendition of the fur cap made famous by later Franklin portraits (see below), B. FRANKLIN OF PHILADELPHIA L.L.D. & F.R.S. This medal's distinctive facial features were apparently adapted from a portrait print by Mason Chamberlin of 1762 that Franklin himself... more |
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| 2257 |
Franklin Eripuit Coelo Medal Shell, ca. 1786
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AU |
$400.00
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Copper electrotype uniface, 47mm. Fuld FR.ME.NL.9. About Uncirculated. Aged Franklin bust l., resembling Dupré or Godel busts, Latin legend ERIPUIT COELO FULMEN, SCEPTRUMQUE TYRANNIS, He Snatched Lightning from the Heavens and the Scepter from the Tyrant. This compliment was undoubtedly based on a line from Roman poet Manilius' Astronomicon, (Book I, 104), and appears on Dupré's... more |
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| 2258 |
Franklin Mossop Medal, ca. 1766
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CH EF |
$900.00
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Copper uniface, 36.7mm. Fuld FR.ME.NL.11, Betts 545. Choice Extremely Fine. Die attributed to William Mossop, Dublin. Charles Coleman Sellers, Benjamin Franklin in Portraiture shows the portrait to be the work of Isaac Gosset, wax modeler of Huguenot descent and creator of popular studies of contemporary celebrities. A similar Gosset Franklin exists as a Wedgewood porcelain oval. Bust l. in... more |
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| 2259 |
Franklin 'Fur Collar' Miniature, n.d
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CH EF |
$2,000.00
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Oval, 45.4 x 36.6mm. After Joseph Siffred Duplessis, 1778. Sellers 24:1. Choice Extremely Fine. Aged, white-haired Franklin facing, wearing dark fur collar and tunic, white cravat and frill, FRANKLIN at l. In gold bezel, outer twisted wire border. In deep-set frame. |
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