Victoria Faithful Service Medal, with ‘10’ year bar, silver, the reverse officially inscribed, ‘To Mr Charles Frederick Jungbluth, First Master Cook, for Faithful Services to the Queen during 26 Years, 1873’, edge embossed, ‘Presented by Queen Victoria 1872’, complete with original tartan ribbon, and in its Wyon, London case of issue, extremely fine £800-1000

Frederick August Carl Philipp Jungbluth was born in 1821 and entered the service of Queen Victoria in 1847. He was listed as German Cook in 1848, 3rd Master Cook in 1854, 2nd Master Cook in 1866 and 1st Master Cook in 1869. Jungbluth was awarded the Victoria Faithful Service Medal at Balmoral on 24 May 1873. A bar for a further 10 years service was awarded in 1883. He retired from the royal service with a pension in 1887 and died at Wandsworth Common, London in 1895. Sold with the booklet The Victoria Faithful Service Medal, which illustrates and lists the statutes of the medal and lists the first 62 recipients of the medal (1872-82). Jungbluth was the 25th recipient of the silver medal.