Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 June 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 650

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26 June 2008

Hammer Price:
£130

An Italian Campaign 1859 pair of medals awarded to Giovanni Andoli-Pierre, 1st Granatieri Regiment

France, Second Empire, Italian Campaign Medal 1859, by Barre, silver, unnamed; Franco-Sardinian Medal in Defence of the Independence of Italy 1859, obverse: busts of Napoleon III and Victor-Emanuel II, unofficial, 26mm., gilt metal, second with some edge bruising, very fine (2) £90-110

With an award document for the French Italian Campaign Medal named to Giovanni Andoli-Pierre, 1st Granatieri (Grenadier) Regiment, Royal Army of the Kingdom of Sardinia, dated 1861. This torn and stained.