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LOT 2042
Grand Tour Specimen Marble Panel
LATE 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY A.D.
10 7/8 x 7 1/8 in. (2.86 kg, 27.5 x 18 cm).
A rectangular plaque with four rows and seven columns of various marble and imperial porphyry specimens, from the Grand Tour Set.
ProvenanceAcquired at Shepton Mallet Fair, Somerset, UK, in 2010.
From the private collection of a Somerset gentleman.
For similar see Coutau-Bégarie Paris, 3rd June 2022, lot 303.
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The custom of giving a bent coin as a love-token is known from the 17th century in England. The coins were usually smoothed to obliterate the monarch’s head and then bent twice; sometimes they were engraved with initials or symbols such as hearts or knots. If the sweetheart accepted the youth's advances, she kept the token; if not, she disposed of it. The tradition is referred to in the children's rhyme 'There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile, and found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile.'
