Charles I, silver badge, 29mm. x 38mm., undated (c.1649), by Thomas Rawlins, draped bust of the king right, with falling lace collar and wearing sash of the Order of the Garter, rev. bust of Henrietta Maria left, wearing low necked dress with drapery on the shoulders, signed below (MI i, 354/215), loop and ring for suspension at 12 o'clock but without the knobs at sides and loop at bottom, good very fine, in a fitted red shagreen case, this probably late 18th or early 19th century, in good condition
CHARLES I SILVER BADGE
Charles I, silver badge, 29mm. x 38mm., undated (c.1649), by Thomas Rawlins, draped bust of the king right, with falling lace collar and wearing sash of the Order of the Garter, rev. bust of Henrietta Maria left, wearing low necked dress with drapery on the shoulders, signed below (MI i, 354/215), loop and ring for suspension at 12 o'clock but without the knobs at sides and loop at bottom, good very fine, in a fitted red shagreen case, this probably late 18th or early 19th century, in good condition

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Charles I, silver badge, 29mm. x 38mm., undated (c.1649), by Thomas Rawlins, draped bust of the king right, with falling lace collar and wearing sash of the Order of the Garter, rev. bust of Henrietta Maria left, wearing low necked dress with drapery on the shoulders, signed below (MI i, 354/215), loop and ring for suspension at 12 o'clock but without the knobs at sides and loop at bottom, good very fine, in a fitted red shagreen case, this probably late 18th or early 19th century, in good condition

Lot Essay

Probably made by Rawlins at Oxford c.1642 (see Helen Farquhar, 'Portraiture of the Stuarts on the Royalist Badges', in The British Numismatic Journal, vol.II, 1906)