Lot Archive

Lot

№ 937

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5 April 2006

Hammer Price:
£210

Three: Shaik Ebrahim Hussain, Merchant Navy and Indian Engineers Telegraph Department

1914-15 Star (2/Cl. Lasr., Shaik Ebrahim Hussain, I.G.T.S. “Patrick Stewart”); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Shaik Ebrahim, I.E. Tel. Dept.); Mercantile Marine 1914-18 (Ebram Hassan Mayawar), note variations to name, nearly very fine and better, scarce unit (3) £80-100

The Patrick Stewart was cable laying ship, built in 1879 by J. Key & Sons, of Kircaldy, 226 feet long with a gross tonnage of 1,130, she was named after the first Director General of India Telegraphs. The ship was in service until 1924.