LEINHART DANNER, GERMAN (ACTIVE NUREMBURG 1497-1585), MID-16TH CENTURY

A SET OF TWENTY-EIGHT WALNUT GAME MARKERS WITH BUSTS OF ANCIENT EMPERORS AND EMPRESSES

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LEINHART DANNER, GERMAN (ACTIVE NUREMBURG 1497-1585), MID-16TH CENTURY
A SET OF TWENTY-EIGHT WALNUT GAME MARKERS WITH BUSTS OF ANCIENT EMPERORS AND EMPRESSES
In a later wooden box
1 1/3 in. (3.5 cm.) diameter, the game pieces

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Please note that there are twenty-eight pieces, not fourteen.

Lot Essay

A very similar set of fourteen game markers by Leinhart Danner, with less variation in tone, may be found in The Philadelphia Museum of Art (inv. no. 1930-64-86a-n). Two very similar examples were offered at auction with Fritz Rudolf Künker Coin Gallery, Germany, on 21-22 June 2006, lot 4274.

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