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Auction: 25360 - The 360th Anniversary Sale
Lot: 8

LARGE SILVER NECK BADGE FROM THE REIGN OF CHARLES I

Large Silver Neck Badge, c. 1649, comprising an oval glazed silver cliché after Nicholas Briot's Celebrated "Dominion of the Seas" [1639] Medal (MI i 285/97), King in armour, wearing George below a plain collar, rev. plain (and glazed), to contain memento, possibly paper, plain rim and roped border, suspension loop and ring, 71 x 56mm, 59.25g (Farquhar -; Eimer -; MI -, cf. 360/230).
Portrait plate appears to have receded somewhat within the mount, strongly suggesting a memento (mori?) has been removed from beneath the panel on the back, original loop attached, a delicate piece of silversmithing.

Charles I, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, was executed on Tuesday, 30 January 1649 outside the Banqueting House on Whitehall, London. The execution was the culmination of political and military conflicts between the royalists and the parliamentarians in England during the English Civil War, leading to the capture and trial of Charles. On Saturday 27 January 1649, the parliamentarian High Court of Justice had declared Charles guilty of attempting to "uphold in himself an unlimited and tyrannical power to rule according to his will, and to overthrow the rights and liberties of the people" and sentenced him to death by beheading.



Provenance

From the Baumhauer Collection of British Medals

Edward St George ["An Important Collection of Stuart Badges & British Commemorative Medals: The Property of a Gentleman"], Spink 120, London, 9-10 July 1997, lot 361 - "lacking obverse lunette, with contemporary loop and ring for suspension, very fine, apparently unknown to Helen Farquhar, a most interesting piece, probably unique" - £1,050 [Baumhauer]

Glendining, 10 June 1987, lot 399



The obverse is taken from the 1639 version of the medal for The Dominion of the Seas, by Nicholas Briot (MI 285/97). This same portrait is also found adapted as a large badge (MI 360/230).


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Estimate
£3,000 to £5,000

Starting price
£3000