Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Bethnal Green Volunteers’ Medal 1814, by P. Wyon, obverse: a figure of Victory by a pillar, standing on a dragon, with the legend, ‘England’s perseverance dethroned Buonaparte’; reverse: an oak and laurel wreath with legend, ‘Bethnal Green Volunteer Infantry, Lt. Col. Carrick, Enrolled 13 Aug. 1803 and disembodied at the general peace of Europe, 24th June 1814’, 50mm., silver, unmounted, Ref: Tancred p.362, H.I. p.298, Payne p.212, coated with a black wash, about very fine £40-60

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the late Eric Smith.

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