Description
Monumental coin tankard from the estate of the Swiss university lecturer and Protestant theologian Dr. Karl Marti (1855-1925) Silver. Flared stand surrounded by godrons and acanthus leaves, merging into a cylindrical body. Domed, correspondingly designed hinged lid crowned by a fully sculpted depiction of the goddess Fortuna. Strongly voluted handle set with a mascaron on the side. The straight wall set in three rows with a total of 40 coins of the German Empire from 1818 to 1876, including a taler with King Ernst August of Hanover from 1840, a Vereinstaler of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, a Frankfurt Vereinstaler from 1864, a so-called "Madonnentaler Bayern König Ludwig II" and a "Madonnentaler Bayern König Ludwig II". Madonnentaler Bayern König Ludwig II from 1867 and a 5-mark coin of the Kingdom of Prussia with Kaiser Wilhelm I from 1876. Dedication on the underside "Herrn Karl Marti in dankbarer Erinnerung Lucy Oppenheimer, Nora Allatini, 1918". Gilt interior. Marked 800, maker's mark, dealer's mark of the Friedländer brothers. Weight approx. 2120 g. H. 40 cm. Karl Marti studied theology and oriental studies in Basel. His teachers included Friedrich Nietzsche, Emil Kautzsch and Albert Socien. Lucie Esther Oppenheimer (1883-1935) and Nora Noëmi Allatini, later Robbins (1889-1954), were the daughters of Alexander Isaac Meyer-Cohn, co-owner of the Meyer-Cohn banking house in Berlin and an important collector of autographs and books. Both sisters lived with their husbands in London, but maintained close ties to Germany during the war years, especially to German personalities from the world of art and culture, including Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Scheurich and artists from the Berlin Secession such as Hermann Struck. A monumental German silver lidded tankard with Prussian silver coins as a gift for the Swiss theologian Dr. Karl Marti, 1918. Dedication inscription on the bottom. Gilt inside. Standard mark 800, maker's and dealer's mark. German. Hanau. Georg Roth & Co. Around 1900.
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Monumental coin tankard from the estate of the Swiss university lecturer and Protestant theologian Dr. Karl Marti (1855-1925) Silver. Flared stand surrounded by godrons and acanthus leaves, merging into a cylindrical body. Domed, correspondingly designed hinged lid crowned by a fully sculpted depiction of the goddess Fortuna. Strongly voluted handle set with a mascaron on the side. The straight wall set in three rows with a total of 40 coins of the German Empire from 1818 to 1876, including a taler with King Ernst August of Hanover from 1840, a Vereinstaler of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, a Frankfurt Vereinstaler from 1864, a so-called "Madonnentaler Bayern König Ludwig II" and a "Madonnentaler Bayern König Ludwig II". Madonnentaler Bayern König Ludwig II from 1867 and a 5-mark coin of the Kingdom of Prussia with Kaiser Wilhelm I from 1876. Dedication on the underside "Herrn Karl Marti in dankbarer Erinnerung Lucy Oppenheimer, Nora Allatini, 1918". Gilt interior. Marked 800, maker's mark, dealer's mark of the Friedländer brothers. Weight approx. 2120 g. H. 40 cm. Karl Marti studied theology and oriental studies in Basel. His teachers included Friedrich Nietzsche, Emil Kautzsch and Albert Socien. Lucie Esther Oppenheimer (1883-1935) and Nora Noëmi Allatini, later Robbins (1889-1954), were the daughters of Alexander Isaac Meyer-Cohn, co-owner of the Meyer-Cohn banking house in Berlin and an important collector of autographs and books. Both sisters lived with their husbands in London, but maintained close ties to Germany during the war years, especially to German personalities from the world of art and culture, including Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Scheurich and artists from the Berlin Secession such as Hermann Struck. A monumental German silver lidded tankard with Prussian silver coins as a gift for the Swiss theologian Dr. Karl Marti, 1918. Dedication inscription on the bottom. Gilt inside. Standard mark 800, maker's and dealer's mark. German. Hanau. Georg Roth & Co. Around 1900.
