Sales catalogue: Stevens

Date:
8 January 1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/21/573
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Stevens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    984 289 16 The Property of a Private Collector. 1783, “ A’ Sun Setting in a Fog,” a political cartoon of F ox leaving office, and another, by the same, 7 Jany., .. 1784, “ The.Loves of the Fox and the Badger,” referring to the Coalition Mimtstry ; plates of this great cartoonist ave most vave; a finely engraved wood-block, and an electrotype copy of same signature (took the place of a seal) of a Notary Apostolic, and a small collection of old Proclamations and documents relating to Ypres and Strasbourg of the French Revolution period, etc., obtained during the late war A rare old Royal Charter under the Great Seal, with very fine portrait of King William III., a Cromwellian deed dated 1656, and 4 documents on one sheet, dated 1652, 1657, 1661 and 1665, relating to the City of Pisa _ of King George II., a portion of another similar, but with older portrait. of the King, and a deed of circa 1400 A.D., with calligraphic signature A distorted ostrich egg, carefully painted by a Siamese artist and probably a charm, similar to the ostrich . eggs from North Africa; abnormal ostrich eggs are of great rarity Ditto, but.a normal egg, painted with a betrothal scene An interesting Javan knife, the blade being made from _ an old Dutch sword, with the date, 1768, on each side, probably unique, and a fine dagger of very unusual type A Pmynivate Collection. A standing bronze image of Jakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth and Prosperity, carly 15th Century, very fine early 14th Century a a
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