Jakob Wolckenstein
Lead, cast, 36.1 mm Ø, 18.6 g
By Matthes Gebel, 1542.
Obverse: Bust of Jakob Wolckenstein facing right with long beard ending in two peaks. Around, IACOR · WOLCKENSTEIN · SEINS · ALTERS · IAR · XXXIII (Jakob of the Wolckenstein House, 33 Years Old).
Jakob Wolckenstein, of Nuremberg, was born c. 1509 to Sebald and Katharina. Habich notes that his grandparents, Veit and Margaretha, had owned a house in Nuremberg, and that the family's lineage is said to have come from Leipzig or Meissen.
This medal is known paired with a reverse which is dated 1542. However, Habich notes that the reverse is by a different hand, or possibly from a different source altogether.
Published:
Listed in Habich 1929-34, p. 169, no. 1212 [Vogel collection, Erbstein catalog].
Provenance:
Morton & Eden 87, 15 June 2017, lot 236.
Sotheby's, 27 May 1999, lot 448.
Sotheby's, 8 July 1997, lot 47 [Hermann Vogel collection].
Adolph Hess Nachf., 18-19 May 1908, lot 438 [Dr. Richard Julius Erbstein collection].
References:
Habich 1929-34, no. 1212