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370, Lot: 668. Estimate $100.
Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOW COUNTRIES, Haastrecht. Cast Æ Brandspuitpenning (42mm, 24.35 g, 12h). Dated 1761. Civic coat-of-arms (three towers) / Eighteenth-century fire engine. J. Dirks, “Deux cents méreaux – corporations de metiers de Pays-Bas,” RBN 1859, 122 ; see http://www.teylersmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/munten-en-penningen/tmnk-05525b-brandspuitpenning-van-haestrecht (for another example dated 1705). VF, brown surfaces, evidence of filing on edge. Number 49 stamped on reverse. Rare.


From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.