Lot Archive

Lot

№ 699

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17 November 1999

Hammer Price:
£30

Death of Queen Caroline, 1821, unsigned bronze medal, bust left, reverse Caroline kneeling on rock in a stormy sea, storm clouds and lightning above, 41mm (BHM 1146-R). A few marks to obverse field, reverse with traces of lacquer, otherwise nearly extremely fine (£20-25)

Brown records no less than eighteen medals and medallets struck in memory of Queen Caroline, evidence of public sympathy for the queen and revulsion at shabby treatment meted out to her by her husband, the extravagant and worldly George IV