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

№ 1261

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26 June 2008

Hammer Price:
£100

A B.E.M. awarded to Mr Albert J. Murphy, Ministry of Works

British Empire Medal, (Civil) G.VI.R., 1st issue (Albert J. Murphy), in card box of issue, extremely fine £100-120

B.E.M. London Gazette 1 January 1948. ‘Albert James Murphy, Temporary Housing Superintendent, Ministry of Works’.

With registered envelope addressed to ‘Albert J. Murphy, Esq., B.E.M., Housing Superintendent, Ministry of Works, Lambeth Bridge House, S.E.1’, together with forwarding slip. Also with a Ministry of Works note addressed to ‘A. J. Murphy Esq., B.E.M., Elmleigh, 56 Plum Lane, Shooters Hill, S.E.18’, dated 22 January 1948.