Maharajpoor Star 1843 (2nd Lieutenant G. F. Atkinson Engineer Department of the Army of Gwalior) fitted with adapted bar suspension with additional ribbon fitments, original ribbon very distressed, otherwise good very fine and very rare £800-£1,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria.

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George Francklin Atkinson was born in 1822, son of Surgeon James Atkinson. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Bengal Engineers on 11 December 1840; Lieutenant, 30 November 1844; Captain, 19 November 1855. He was on furlough in 1858-59 and died whilst at Paris on 15 December 1859.

Atkinson was also a fine artist and had published some notable plate books, including "Curry & Rice" on forty plates; or, the ingredients of social life at "our station" in India, a satirical work that critiqued the lives and behaviours of British colonialists in India, and The Campaign in India. 1857-58 - From Drawings Made During the Eventful Period of the Great Mutiny... a fine visual record of the Indian Mutiny.