Auction Catalogue

25 February 1998

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Arts Club  40 Dover St  London  W1S 4NP

Lot

№ 319

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25 February 1998

Hammer Price:
£140

Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers, silver and gilt Challenge Medal, the central silver medallion ornately inscribed ‘A. Company. Capt. Williamson’s Challenge Medal. 29th L.R.V.’, hallmarked Glasgow 1866, the reverse inscribed with the names of the winners, including Sergt. J. McGregor in 1874, 1876, 1879 and 1880, the whole surrounded by an ornate gilt wreath of thistles surmounted by a crown and crossed rifles, an unusual piece of good quality manufacture, the centre loose, otherwise good very fine £100-150