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Click here to subscribeCOMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, TURKEY, the Ottoman Empire and the wars against them, 1682, Great Britain/Morocco, The Treaty of Peace and Commerce between Britain and Algiers, Silver Medal, by George Bower, bust of Named Hamet to right wearing turban, rev panorama of the port of city of Tunis, Peace, naked, reclines on clouds above, NON EGET MAURI IACULIS, 40mm, the edge stamped with a minute letter C, probably a continental duty stamp (MI 585/261). Good very fine and excessively rare. Kaid Mohammed benHaduOttur [Named Hamet], was Morocco's second Ambassador to London, appointed in 1682, and he made a deep impression on London society because of his exotic dress, his courtesy and his horsemanship. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society and visited Oxford University. One of the most famous English painters of the day, Sir Godfrey Kneller, painted him on his horse in Hyde Park. The Treaty of Peace and Commerce between Britain and Algiers was signed on 23rd March 1882, and dealt primarily with protections for piracy and the rights of British subjects in Algiers. It was renewed and enlarged several times between 1686 and 1800. The reverse legend, which translates as “It needs not the javelins of the Moors”, is taken from Horace. The specimen in the British Museum is recorded as being an electrotype from the Ducal Library in Gotha.
A graduated set of three Crown Ducal jugs by Charlotte Rhead each with single gilt decorated handle and cream ribbed body decorated with two bands of geometric shapes and a wider band of stylised flowers and foliage black printed mark and impressed numbers 282 283 and 285 (3) tallest 23cm high
A Minton transfer printed tile with horses and chickens in a farmyard, with signature W.Wise 1879', marked Mintons China Works; together with a Crown Ducal wash bowl set and a Victorian Colebridge 'Fern' jug William Wise worked as a freelance graphic designer for Minton China Works, designing tiles and other pottery during the 1870s and 1880s. He is best known for his depictions of rural life Best Bid