Auction Catalogue

21 September 2007

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 338

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21 September 2007

Hammer Price:
£150

Tarves Rifle Volunteers, gold and gilt Challenge Medal, the central gold medallion with maker’s mark ‘JD’ but not hallmarked, finely engraved on the obverse with the Arms of Aberdeen, the reverse inscribed ‘Challenge Medal presented to Tarves Rifle Volunteers by Capt. Webster, P.A.V.G. 1877’, the gilt rim surmounted by a spray of thistles with rings for suspension, extremely fine and rare £100-150