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| Frankly, this piece appears to be brass, which d'Essling implies as well,
that has been painted a dark chocolate and then lacquered. It may just be
a lacquer job that has gone completely bad but the brass color does appear
only at points of wear. The obverse is very high relief while the
reverse is nearly flat. So of course as soon as I verified it was genuine
I had to have it! |
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| Also, the d'Essling lot makes it clear that there were at least two, possibly
three varieties of this piece and it seems the spelling errors may have
been corrected on those. |
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| There are hi-res scans attached to the pictures above. |
