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EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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TWO IMPORTANT COMMEMORATIVE BOX-MEDALS
Early 19th Century
A British Regency period box-medal of Nelson's Naval Exploits and British Naval Victories from 1780-1816, published by Edward Orme, Bond Street, 1817, the obverse depicting a silhouette portrait bust of England's Admiral Nelson, Duke of Bronte and inscribed HOR VICECOM NELSON OB PATRIAM PUGNANDO MORT OCT XXI MDCCCV, the reverse inscribed RECORD OF NAVAL VALOUR. EVERY MAN HAS DONE HIS DUTY IPSE BELLI FULMEN, the box enclosing fourteen aquatint roundels with the principal battles and their descriptions on the reverse; together with another Regency commemorative box-medal, of lead, of the Prussian Army's Exploits and Victories in 1813, enclosing twelve aquatint roundels with the principal battles and their descriptions, the obverse bearing the three figures of Justice, Victory and Peace, and inscribed GERECHTIGKEIT WEIHEIT. U. EINIGKEIT BEGLÜKEN. D. MENSCHHEIT, and on the reverse: EINTRACHT ÜBERWINDET ALLES 1813. HEIL EUCH VEREINTEN
The first 3in. diameter (2)
Early 19th Century
A British Regency period box-medal of Nelson's Naval Exploits and British Naval Victories from 1780-1816, published by Edward Orme, Bond Street, 1817, the obverse depicting a silhouette portrait bust of England's Admiral Nelson, Duke of Bronte and inscribed HOR VICECOM NELSON OB PATRIAM PUGNANDO MORT OCT XXI MDCCCV, the reverse inscribed RECORD OF NAVAL VALOUR. EVERY MAN HAS DONE HIS DUTY IPSE BELLI FULMEN, the box enclosing fourteen aquatint roundels with the principal battles and their descriptions on the reverse; together with another Regency commemorative box-medal, of lead, of the Prussian Army's Exploits and Victories in 1813, enclosing twelve aquatint roundels with the principal battles and their descriptions, the obverse bearing the three figures of Justice, Victory and Peace, and inscribed GERECHTIGKEIT WEIHEIT. U. EINIGKEIT BEGLÜKEN. D. MENSCHHEIT, and on the reverse: EINTRACHT ÜBERWINDET ALLES 1813. HEIL EUCH VEREINTEN
The first 3in. diameter (2)