LOT #7514 |
Sold on Feb 24, 2001 for: Not Sold
Multiple Coin Lot...
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Description
Four ante-bellum Washington medals.
(1) 1860 Robert Lovett, Jr.'s Fideli Certa Merces Washington medal, AU with slight rub to Washington's tresses. Bronze. 53 mm. Rulau-Fuld 135A. This features the Philadelphian's famous nude bust facing right of the first president, which also appears in various sizes on other medals of the period. Lovett is famous as the reputed manufacturer of the so-called Confederate cent. According to the RF catalog, the bronze version of Lovett's memorial medal is much scarcer than the more commonly seen white metal strikings. Catalogs $80-$100 and should reasonably fetch that.
Ex: Early American History Auctions, (12/11/99), lot 39.
(2) Another as the last, 1860 Lovett Fideli Certa Merces medal, XF-AU with noticeable friction on the highpoints on the obverse and a reverse that reveals the metallic content of this medal beneath an extremely lovely dark copper surface coloration. White metal bronzed. Thin planchet (5 mm at edge). 53 mm. Type of Rulau-Fuld 135C. The white metal variety catalogs $150 in XF. The value of this apparently unrecorded specimen is subject to bidding.
(3) Also, an undated Bale & Smith Birth/Death medal, Unc but weakly struck. White metal. 29 mm. Rulau-Fuld 158C. Authors Russ Rulau and George Fuld attribute this piece to Bale & Smith because of its similarity to the Atwood Railroad Hotel storecards and those issued by the firm of Bale & Smith in New York City in the 1830s. Although undated, that source speculates that these pieces were produced by George Lovett ca. 1860. Catalogs $50 in Unc.
(4) Unlisted Peter H. Jacobus Calendar medal, Red and Brown Unc. Copper. 33.8 mm. Type of Rulau-Fuld 387, but with a distinctive reverse and in a distinctive metal. Unlisted. This Jacobus calendar medal has the obverse depicted in the Rulau-Fuld reference, page 182, which is also the obverse shown in the Melvin and George Fuld series on calendar medals published in The Numismatist in 1959, but it has the reverse of neither of those specimens. The most distinctive characteristic differentiating the three types is the location of the balancing bead on this spinner medal. In the 1959 article, the Fulds picture a calendar medal with the balancing bead pointing to the DA in THURSDAY. In the update of the Baker listing, Rulau-Fuld show a variety with the bead pointing toward the frontier between MONDAY and TUESDAY. On the calendar medal offered here, this bead points toward the AY in SATURDAY. Rulau-Fuld estimates the value of an Unc. brass spinner at $100. This should be worth more. Both Rulau-Fuld and Baker before them indicate the Jacobus calendar medals were struck in 1858. Perhaps these three distinctive reverses are from different years?
Auction Info
2001 February Long Beach Signature Sale #248 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
February, 2001
22nd-24th
Thursday-Saturday
Bids + Registered Phone Bidders: 4
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