A very interesting large set of old various types of rubbings, deep prints, prints, engravings, bartynotype. Regardless of the form of execution, it mostly depicts excellent numismatics. The youngest item we noticed on the rubbings is a medal from 1876.
The highlight of the set is undoubtedly the stamped print of the 100-dukatta of Sigismund III. The pen annotation of the weight (246.6) here clearly indicates a 70-ducat weight print. The paper bears a dry crest stamp with the notation LONDON, but this is not a piece from the 1964 Glendining auction. It is a new piece, unknown to the author of the 100-ducatta monograph, Dariusz Jasek. Perhaps from the Lavra treasury. An interesting discussion on this subject is available on our Facebook.
As Mateusz Wozniak (Numismatic Cabinet of E. Hutten-Czapski, MN Kraków) discovered, most of the prints are the work of Dmitry Ivanovich Prozorovsky, author of a portfolio of plates published in 1872 in an edition of 50, which was a separately sold supplement to the medal catalog.
Most of the set in very nice states of preservation. Some, mainly prints, with traces of pasting on the four corners (perhaps some kind of mock-up of the plates was done?) On the prints mainly medals, and on the rubbings in turn dominated by coins. On some of the papers some annotations, most numbered. Various characters of writing and techniques of execution are visible. With quite a number of rubbings written prices in rubles, sometimes in marks. The whole thing looks like material from the studio of some advanced numismatist / publicist.
They all came from the scrapbooks of an old house in Warsaw's Praga district. They had no additional provenance information.
