FINE ITALIAN SILVER BINDING. Palermo, ca. 1770.

AUCTION 7 | Tuesday, June 22nd, 1999 at 1:00

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Lot 152

FINE ITALIAN SILVER BINDING. Palermo, ca. 1770.

Est: $6,000 - $9,000

PRICE REALIZED $27,000

PROVENANCE: 1. Metropolitan Costache Callimachi of Moldavia. Purchased in Rome whilst on an ecumenical visit to Pope. Clement XIV, 1774. 2. King Scarlat Callimachi of Moldavia (d. 1790). 3. King Dimitri Callimachi of Moldavia (d. 1813). By descent within the Family to the present owner H.E. Prince Nicolai Callimachi, distinguished historian in Bucharest, Romania.