CROMWELL'S SILVER WATCH.
Bv the whirligig of time Oliver Cromwell's silver watch, made for him at a cost of about £5 and engraved with his name in 1648, fetched 195 guineas at Christie's recently, while a Frans Hals portrait of a boy, painted about the same time and just the kind of Hals picture which used to be picked up for a £i) note was causing Messrs. Agnew to bid up to £3500 for it at Sotheby's. And lest some people doubt this statement —as they remember only the huge =111115 given for great Hals portraits in recent years—says Mr. A. C. R. Carter in the '"Daily Telegraph," let it be recalled that, in 1913, Lord Glanusk sent a Hals portrait to Sotheby's which eventually realised £9000, although m ISS4 it had been bought for only 5 guineas— with a still life subject thrown in.
The Cromwell watcli, bought by Mr. E. Wertheimer, appeared in tl\e wellknown Asprey collection, and was accompanied bv an alarm watch appropriately associated with the , somewhat nervous James 1., for whom David Ramsay is held to have made it. This realised 120 guineas, _
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 46, 23 February 1929, Page 9
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188CROMWELL'S SILVER WATCH. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 46, 23 February 1929, Page 9
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