]> 2026-05-29T18:09:17+00:00 Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1708-10-15 0 en 36.199238888889,37.163725 1708-10-15Z 2345181.5 'I made a second attempt upon that Collection my former acquainted you of; & Conscious y^t my own Ability was not Answerable to my desire of serving you, I begd M^r Professor Heyman’s Assistance; who in his travails does y^r place the honour of a Visit, & y^r Factory the Favour of his Ingenious Conversation; being now in the house of C[onsul]. Pilkington, & designs hence in a month for Stamb. We examind y^m severally, & the fairest account I am capable of sending, is as follows.<br> 5. Gold. very common. weight, eleven drams.<br> 138 Silver. 23 neither rare nor Common. 66 drams: & the remainder weighed 247 Drams.<br> 500 & odd brass ones. None of the rarest, & about 40 not Common.<br> Among the silver were several of Alexander, Antiochus, Lysimachus & Philippus: some of towns & Provinces, w^th the Aeras: I saw none wth Punick leters; & the Brass have very few of the Lower Empire. The Inscriptions of the whole parcel are mostly Greek, plain & legible, & very well preservd.<br> I cannot learn y^t M. Bigaud has any concern or Interest in the disposal of y^m, & they are now in the hands of Capⁿ Vernons ware house-man; being a Legacy to 4 or 5 persons, jealous of one another, & the true reason of so stubborn a price: Tho’ of late, I find y^m relenting, & willing to hear of another price; but how much They will abate, I cannot learn. I have putt my own Seal upon the Bag, nor will any one be permitted to break It open, ’till I receive y^r answer to This: & I hope you’l not let slip the first Opportunity; his Excellency S^r Rob^t Sutton having given an unlimited Commission to our 2^d Drogherman to buy up all Medals & Stones y^t come to Hand. Then, should the Owners hear this news, they’l not abate one Ace of the first price. The Drogherman went about these but being told I was treating about y^m, He mannerly declines ’till such time as I have refusd y^m; & he has the promise of the next. Myn Heer Heyman having lost at sea w^ht purchase he made while at Smyrna &c is now collecting anew, & made a proposal to be one of four to buy y^m, too Costly for one man.’ (Royal Society, MS 254/394; Burnett 2020b, pp. 569 n. 19, 609). 15821 MS 254/394 English Burnett 2020b, pp. 569 n. 19, 609, 618 n. 395 collecting smyrna collection destruction greek alexander antiochus lysimachus philip punic bronze 15821 Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1708-10-15 Aleppo Correspondence.png 2023-10-30T10:34:29Z 2460247.9406134 2023-11-15T16:01:18Z 2460264.1675694 false Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1708-10-15 0 0 plainlist leaflet 1 [[:Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1708-10-15]] Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1708-10-15# QUERYc76d60fd316d5c20765eb9e64db1fbae 0 0 csv 1 [[:Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1708-10-15]] Thomas Owen - William Sherard - 1708-10-15# QUERY38c89fdde4dd27847043558827903825