Orders, Decorations and Medals

Tarves Rifle Volunteers, gold and gilt Challenge Medal, the central gold medallion with maker’s mark ‘JD’ but not hallmarked, finely engraved on the obverse with the Arms of the Town, the reverse inscribed ‘Challenge Medal presented to Tarves Rifle Volunteers by Capt. Webster, P.A.V.G. 1877’, the gilt rim surmounted by a spray of thistles with rings for suspension, extremely fine and rare £100-150