Auction Catalogue

27 June 2007

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 870

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27 June 2007

Hammer Price:
£780

British Victories of the Peninsular War 1815, a bronze box medal, by I. Porter & E. Orme, bust of Wellington left, ‘Englands Great Captain Arthur Duke of Wellington’, rev. Victory seated left beneath a tree inscribing tablet, ‘Record of British Valour’, in ex. ‘Picture Medal’, containing 13 engraved monochrome roundels with names and dates of campaigns and battles, 75mm., in worn maroon leather case of issue, ref. B.H.M. 866, Eimer 1074, Eimer Wellington 80, the roundels in good order, the medal good very fine, scarce £400-500