Auction Catalogue

25 February 1999

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Arts Club  40 Dover St  London  W1S 4NP

Lot

№ 486

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25 February 1999

Hammer Price:
£150

Pair: Private C. P. G. Smith, Royal Marines
Crimea 1854-56, 5 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Azoff, Sebastopol; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, fitted with Crimean type suspension, both medals similarly engraved (C. P. G. Smith, 33. 4Coy., C.D., R.M., H.M.S. Algiers 1854) the second and fourth clasps both tailor’s copies, contact marks, good fine (2) £80-100

Although the above entitlement is clearly not possible, the entire fabrication appears to be of some age and therefore an interesting curio.