The New York Sale 2026 Ancient & World

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1568 Leopold I (1657-1705). War against the Ottoman Empire. Wood Plaque, late 17th-early 18th Century Wood Gaming Piece. 61mm, 16.5mm thick. Lute player seated by a young maiden, farming implement sand field in background; ZV HART GESPANT. VERDERBT DAS LAND (‘To tightly strung spoils the land’). Reverse: Turbaned Turkish cavalrymen battle knights of the Holy League. Rich dark caramel-brown. Extremely Fine.

$300

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1569 Leopold I (1657-1705). On the Siege of Ėrsekújvár (Neuhäusel) and the Battle of Esperjes, 1685. Wood Plaque, late 17th-early 18th Century Wood Gaming Piece. 57.9mm, 12.3mm thick. City under siege, cavalry charging upper left, cannonball flying before tower of smoke; CAESAR ME RECIPIT STRATO AVT FVGIENTE TYRANNO (‘Caesar receives me whether the tyrant is overthrown or fleeing’ – a declaration of allegiance that remains constant), Neuhausel expugnatur die 9/19 Aug. 1685 in ex. Reverse: Crowned Imperial eagle above about to strike its sword on the Ottoman wolf on the field below; ET STABVLO ET CAMPO DEPVLSIS LVSTRA REQVIRIT. Old collection number ‘6688’ inked on edge. Caramel-brown. Extremely Fine. In July 1685, the Hapsburg army under Count Aeneas de Caprara invested Ėrsekújvár (modern Nové Zámky, Slovakia), storming it on August 19th and putting the entire Ottoman garrison to the sword. A week earlier, August 11, at the Battle of Esperjes (modern-day Prĕsov, Slovakia), Hapsburg forces defeated the forces of Ottoman-ally, the Hungarian nobleman Tököly Imre.

$300

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