Lot Archive

Lot

№ 663

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18 September 2009

Hammer Price:
£3,100

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (Abraham Farrant) minor contact marks, very fine £1500-2000

Only one ‘Abraham Farrant’ listed in the ‘Colin Message’ N.G.S. roll - listed as being Carpenter’s Crew on H.M.S. Spartiate, entitled to the clasp, Trafalgar. The only ‘Farrant’ listed in the above roll for Syria is to a ‘Lieutenant Augustus D. L. Farrant, R.M., H.M.S. Powerful.’