The Property of DENSTONE COLLEGE, UTTOXETER, STAFFORDSHIRE
A COLLECTION OF PLASTER IMPRESSIONS OF SEALS AND INTAGLIOS, comprising: FORTY EIGHT RECTANGULAR PANELS after a classical Roman frieze depicting the Rape of the Sabines and other scenes of Centaurs fighting, warriors and other figures, 19th Century, nine panels cracked and damaged; FOUR BEECH TRAYS WITH APPROXIMATELY ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY GILT PAPER-EDGED OVAL IMPRESSIONS of portraits and other seals in the Capitoline, Vatican, Albani, Florence, Naples and Paris Museums, with Italian manuscript key, the underside inscribed A Cooper, Windermere, 19th Century; APPROXIMATELY ONE HUNDRED VARIOUS LOOSE GILT-PAPER EDGED PORTRAIT MEDALLION IMPRESSIONS of classical subjects; and APPROXIMATELY FIFTY LOOSE UN-BORDERED CIRCULAR PORTRAIT MEDALLION IMPRESSIONS, of classical, medieval and English historical subjects, 19th/early 20th Century (approximately 350)

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A COLLECTION OF PLASTER IMPRESSIONS OF SEALS AND INTAGLIOS, comprising: FORTY EIGHT RECTANGULAR PANELS after a classical Roman frieze depicting the Rape of the Sabines and other scenes of Centaurs fighting, warriors and other figures, 19th Century, nine panels cracked and damaged; FOUR BEECH TRAYS WITH APPROXIMATELY ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY GILT PAPER-EDGED OVAL IMPRESSIONS of portraits and other seals in the Capitoline, Vatican, Albani, Florence, Naples and Paris Museums, with Italian manuscript key, the underside inscribed A Cooper, Windermere, 19th Century; APPROXIMATELY ONE HUNDRED VARIOUS LOOSE GILT-PAPER EDGED PORTRAIT MEDALLION IMPRESSIONS of classical subjects; and APPROXIMATELY FIFTY LOOSE UN-BORDERED CIRCULAR PORTRAIT MEDALLION IMPRESSIONS, of classical, medieval and English historical subjects, 19th/early 20th Century (approximately 350)

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