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LOT 1700
Medieval Bronze Ring with Horseman
15TH-16TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (6.60 grams, 24.94 mm overall, 21.12 mm internal diameter (approximate size British X, USA 11 1/2, Europe 26.29, Japan 25)).
With facetted shoulders, octagonal bezel with incuse image of a horseman on a rearing mount, objects in the field. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 596, for type.
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Medieval Henry VI Period Somerset Vellum Manuscript Letter of Attorney
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Handwritten in five lines with two seals, reading: 'Know all me by this present writing that we John Gouter esquire and Elizabeth, who was late the wife of Richard Hungate, have made constituted and confirmed and put in our place our beloved in Christ John Rimpyngden as our true and lawful attorney in law to receive in our name of Thomas Tyrell. Thomas Covell, Arthur Ormesby esquire and William Godyng full and peaceful seisin in his possession of his manor of Knolle, with all its appurtenances, in the county of Somerset, to the true intent and meaning of a charter made to the said John Gouter and Elizabeth... it is ratified and consented that whatsoever our said attorney in our names shall do or have done in or about the premises shall be lawful. In witness whereof we have affixed our seal. Dated 3rd day of the month of January in the 17th year of the reign of king henry VI (1438/1439).' 19.20 grams, 33.5 cm
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