Item 1991/1 - Card from Michael Metcalf with attachment

2 items, paper

Card from Michael Metcalf, manuscript, undated, but roughly datable on the basis of the attachment. The card depicts the Round Church [of the Holy Sepulchre] in Cambridge. The note concerns a thrymsa, described as lot 1 (sic; recto: 254) that is up for sale in the forthcoming Glendining auction on Thursday 21 March 1991. Peter Mitchell [Managing Director at A. H. Baldwin's, 1967-1997] had been in touch about the coin at IS's insistence. MM thinks that "we" [i.e. the Ashmolean] should attempt to obtain it, though it could necessitate selling a die-duplicate from the Crondall hoard. The attachment (a) consists in the relevant pages from the auction catalogue with the written description of the coin (p. 28) and the illustration of the coin (pl. III).