Lot Archive

Lot

№ 510

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22 September 2006

Hammer Price:
£2,200

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann (Henry Horn, 4th Lt. Dragns.), officially impressed naming, minor edge bruising, good very fine £2000-2500

Ex Spink’s Numismatic Circular, May 1910; Hayward’s Catalogue, December 1968; D.N.W. 2 April 2004.

Henry Horn was born in 1830 at Kennington, near Ashford, Kent. A labourer by trade, he enlisted into the 4th Light Dragoons on 1 August 1851. On the roll for the above three clasps and Sebastopol, he nevertheless remains an unconfirmed ‘charger’ in the ‘Lummis and Wynn’ roll. He was sent to Scutari on 28 January 1855 and died there on 2 February. Sold with a number copied papers confirming clasps and death and a copy of the above Hayward’s catalogue.