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2600 Philip II (1527-1554-1598), oval uniface cast Bronze plaquette, by a medallist signing C, bust right,<br />
wearing gown over embroidered doublet, ruff collar and badge of the Golden Fleece on a ribband,<br />
PHILIPVS II HISPAN ET NOVI ORBIS OCCIDVI REX, 95mm x 83.5mm (cf Arm II, 304, C; BDM III, 65; Stack,<br />
Morton & Eden, 9 December, 2009 (lot 318). An old cast, probably 17 th century, very fine. £500-800<br />
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2601 Ferdinando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba (1507-1582), Governor of the Spanish Netherlands<br />
(1567-1573), cast Bronze Portrait Medal, 1571, by Giuliano Giannini, bearded bust right, wearing ruff<br />
collar over armour, FERDIN TOLET ALBÆ DVX BELG PRÆF, an altar supported by two storks and a<br />
reclining lion, DEO ET REGI, and below (incised) VITE VSVS, 39mm (Arm II, 246, 12; vLoon I, 136, 1).<br />
Pierced, very fine. £120-150<br />
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, was nicknamed “the Iron Duke” by the Protestants in the Netherlands, because of his<br />
harsh rule and the atrocities committed during his military operations in Flanders.<br />
2602 Don Carlos of Spain (1545-1568), cast uniface Bronze Medal, by Pompeo Leoni, 1557, bust left, wearing<br />
armour and holding baton, CAROLVS P F HISPP PRINCEPS ÆT AN XII, 66mm (Att 118). A good very fine<br />
early cast. £200-300<br />
The portrait is of Don Carlos aged 12. Aged 23 and mentally unstable, he would find himself imprisoned by his father and die<br />
after six months’ solitary confinement.
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