]> 2026-05-29T18:45:16+00:00 William Hamilton - William Hunter - 1775-01-02 0 en 40.835883333333,14.248766666667 1775-01-02Z 2369366.5 'Soon after I had the pleasure of receiving your Letter of the 14th of Novr., I went to examine the collection of medals with a person who has much greater knowledge in medals than Mr. Jamineau; for it is long, and for good reasons that I have had no manner of connection with Mr. Jamineau, except upon His Majesty’s service, and they were judged to be in general true and well preserved, some few dubious, but none, or not above one or two, that can be declared false. The gold collection is admirably preserved, the medallions are very fine and some exceedingly rare and the large bronze for the most part bellissimo and conservatissimo. In short if I cow’d get them, even for 100''l''. more than you mention, that is 600''l''., I shou’d not hesitate, as I am sure that they are particularly good and such as cannot easily be procured for money. They are not in a dealer’s hands, but one of the nobility whose Father was a great collector and a very judicious one. I have told him the estimation such as it cou’d be made from the imperfect idea that cou’d be formed from the catalogue, but as his pretentions are far beyond that sum, I thought it not the time to offer more, and that the best way is to appear cool about them; if the owner has bad luck at play, he will perhaps come to me, and at all events I will keep an eye upon him, as I realy shou’d be happy to do you a pleasure and secure such valuable monuments of antiquity to our country. I never collected medals regularly and those that were lumped with my collection of antiquities in the Museum were such as I bought accidently with other monuments of antiquity. The collection I bought for the late Ld. Morton was a curious one, but I prefer this little collection.' (MacDonald 1899, pp. xix-xx; Brock 2008, vol. 2, pp. 186-7, letter 322; Burnett 2020b, p. 1056 n. 429) 16520 English MacDonald 1899, pp. xix-xx Brock 2008, vol. 2, pp. 186-7, letter 322 Burnett 2020b, p. 1056 n. 429 state of preservation gold aes grave collection price collection value catalogue 16520 William Hamilton - William Hunter - 1775-01-02 Naples Correspondence.png 2024-01-18T12:09:23Z 2460328.0065162 2024-01-18T12:09:23Z 2460328.0065162 true William Hamilton - William Hunter - 1775-01-02 0 0 plainlist leaflet 1 [[:William Hamilton - William Hunter - 1775-01-02]] William Hamilton - William Hunter - 1775-01-02# QUERY718acee7dceb6fe3b41b29b701d1283c 0 0 csv 1 [[:William Hamilton - William Hunter - 1775-01-02]] William Hamilton - William Hunter - 1775-01-02# QUERY2f4a01e2b9647adbf6c57af63b0f8aa1