Auction Catalogue

2 December 2009

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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№ 258 x

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2 December 2009

Hammer Price:
£460

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, G.C.B. (Military) a fine Georgian Knight Grand Cross embroidered breast star by Lewis, the silver and gilt sequin and wire body with centre embellished with coloured silk threads and red velvet, circa 1820-37, 112mm diameter, the reverse with maker’s paper roundel ‘Lewis, Gold Laceman, Embroiderer, Sword Cutler &c. To the King, 33 St James’s Street’, two sequins lacking from central motto and some loss to paper backing at the extremities, otherwise good very fine and scarce £500-600