Auction Catalogue

13 December 2007

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 211

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13 December 2007

Hammer Price:
£3,400

Military General Service 1793-1814, 11 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (Heinrich Rode, 1st Hussars, K.G.L.) contact marks and scratching to both sides and edge, otherwise nearly very fine £2800-3200

First recorded at Sotheby in November 1928. Only 3 medals with 11 clasps to the 1st Hussars, the maximum entitlement other than the 13-clasp medal to Wellington’s orderly, Corporal Henry Backefeld.