Auction Catalogue

30 March 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 611

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30 March 2011

Hammer Price:
£300

Naval Gold Medal 1795-1815, Centenary of the Battle of Trafalgar 1905, gilt medal framed and glazed in the style of the Naval Gold Medal, with reverse inscription to ‘Horatio Viscount Nelson, Vice-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief, on the 21 October MDCCCV, the combined fleets of France and Spain defeated’, two rings for suspension, good very fine and scarce £200-300

Examples were struck on this occasion for each of Nelson’s great victories of St Vincent, the Nile, and Trafalgar.