Just won my first lot with R. M. Smythe
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- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
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I think I won three lots, but nothing noteworthy. I'm spending too much lately, and I intentionally kept my bids low. They had some neat stuff in that sale...
jonathan
death. I am guessing these were once part of "sets" which one could buy in differant compositions. But this is just a guess.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
They come in white metal, copper (brass? bronze?) and silver versions. Stack's sold a pair of William Henry Harrison pieces, where they said, "From Belgian medalist Auguste Brichaut's series honoring U.S. Presidents from Washington through Hayes, a somewhat mysterious set whose individual medals are seldom encountered today."
Early American sold a larger group of them (8 pieces?) a year or two ago, and had even less to say about the origin of the set.
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<< <i>They're not inauguration medals. Brichaut was born after the earliest medals are "dated". They seem to have been produced all at the same time.
They come in white metal, copper (brass? bronze?) and silver versions. Stack's sold a pair of William Henry Harrison pieces, where they said, "From Belgian medalist Auguste Brichaut's series honoring U.S. Presidents from Washington through Hayes, a somewhat mysterious set whose individual medals are seldom encountered today."
Early American sold a larger group of them (8 pieces?) a year or two ago, and had even less to say about the origin of the set. >>
So that would make them Belgian commemoritive series??
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
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