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№ 78

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11 December 2013

Hammer Price:
£70

Pair: Captain R. Robertson, Mercantile Marine

British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals 1914-18 (Robert Robertson), good very fine (2) £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Merchant Seamen and D.E.M.S. Gunners.

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Robert Robertson served as a Master for Butterfield & Swire and the China Navigation Company; sold with his original Authority to Wear War Medals for the Mercantile Marine, with date of issue given as June 1925, together with related Board of Trade forwarding letter, addressed to him in Shanghai, and an old Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation envelope.