256, Lot: 927. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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temp. HANOVER. Charles Edward Stuart (the Young Pretender/‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’). As Prince of Wales
in pretence, 1701-1766. Pewter Medal (41mm, 34.23 g, 12h). Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen). Dated 1745. CAROLUS WALLIÆ PRINCEPS, bare head right; 1745 below / AMOR ET SPES (
love and hope), Britannia standing left, head turned toward fleet of ships approaching in background, holding spear and Union shield set before globe; BRITANNIA in exergue. MI 600/251; Eimer 595a; Woolf 59:2. VF, a few stains.
From the Clarence & Helen Zaar Maritime Collection.