Auction Catalogue

24 & 25 June 2009

Starting at 2:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 736

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25 June 2009

Hammer Price:
£85

The Duke of Cumberland’s Sharp Shooters’ Medal, obverse: head of Barber Beaumont; reverse, with inscription: 'The Duke of Cumberland's Sharp Shooters, the First Volunteer Rifle Corps in Great Britain was raised in 1803', 41mm., silver-gilt (Mr A. R. Margary, Best Shot, Chalk Farm, 12th June 1838) onetime with suspension, now edge plugged at 12 o’clock, good very fine £40-60