Auction Catalogue

28 & 29 March 2012

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 1238

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29 March 2012

Hammer Price:
£6,500

The Peninsula and Waterloo pair awarded to Lieutenant Leopold Schultze, 1st Hussars, King’s German Legion

Military General Service 1793-1814, 6 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse (L. S. Schultze, Cornet 1st Hussrs. K.G.L.); Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. Leopold Schulze, 1st Reg. Hussars K.G.L.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, good very fine and better (2) £5000-6000

Ex Payne Collection 1911.

Leopold Sigismund Schultze served as an N.C.O. before receiving his commission on 17 September 1810, becoming Lieutenant on 19 November 1811. He served in the expedition to the Baltic 1807; in the Peninsula from 1809 to 1813; campaign in the South of France 1813-14; in the Netherlands 1814; and in the campaign of 1815 and the battle of Waterloo. Schultze was placed on half pay on 24 February 1816, and died in 1858.