There are in the Huntington Collection several specimens of these Nini medallions, that collection containing in all eleven medallions of Franklin, many of which being unmarked it is futile to attempt to classify. A Nini medallion having a fine fur-cap portrait sold in the Governor Lyon sale for ten dollars. Mr. Huntington wrote thus to Hon. John Bigelow, of Nini and his medallions: “He must have had a certain vogue in his time, medallions of folks of the superior classes from his hand still turning up at sales and in curiosity shops. He did two Franklins—both at the Metropolitan Museum—dated and signed. The smaller one, with the cap, ‘1777 B. Franklin, Américain,’ was among the earliest of the Franklin idols made here, and has been numerously reproduced by French, English, and other engravers. The larger, which is of the more usual size of Nini’s work, is much rarer, has never been engraved from, as far as I know, and is to my notion one of the most finely characterized of all the Franklin portraits—1799 (and in some copies MDCCLXXIX.; you will find specimens of both in the museum), with Turgot’s lines for the legend. In his letter to his daughter, Passy, 3d of June, B. F. writes: ‘The clay medallion of me you say you gave Mr. Hopkinson was the first of the kind made in France.’ This must be the one with the cap. If the Ven. F. is correct in his statement, it would curiously seem that his friend Chaumont set Nini at him as soon as he caught the artist, to start (we should now say inaugurate) his furnace at Chaumont with the likeness of his friend.” 41. Franklin. Medallion. Wedgwood. This appears in Wedgwood’s Catalogue of 1787 under the head of “Illustrious Moderns.” It was made in black basalt and blue and white jasper. There appear to have been two of these portraits; for at the sale of the collection of Dr. Gibson, in London, March, 1877, a blue jasper medallion of Dr. Franklin, by Wedgwood & Bentley, was sold for £12 12s., while one with the fur-cap by Wedgwood sold for £11. Specimens can be seen in the Huntington Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in the Trumbull-Prime Collection at Princeton. 42. Franklin. Cameo. Wedgwood. In Wedgwood’s Catalogue of 1787. Made in white on colored grounds, and in pure white. 43. Franklin. Intaglio. Wedgwood. This is named in Wedgwood’s Catalogue of 1787. It was smaller, to be used as a seal, and was of black ware highly polished. One may be seen in the Trumbull-Prime Collection. 44. Franklin. Oval Plaque. Bristol.