Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 March 2013

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 520

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25 March 2013

Hammer Price:
£150

Volunteer Force Long Service, V.R. (No. 8 Pte. Robt. Brookhouse, 1st Mcr. Vol. Regt. 7th June 1879) engraved naming, mounted as worn, in fitted case - the lid bearing the intials ‘R.B.’, extremely fine £50-70

With an official listing of members of the First Manchester Rifle Volunteer, First Company. Brookhouse is listed as having enrolled on 7 June 1859. With a letter to Brookhouse to accompany the medal, dated 9 May 1896, with envelope, bearing a postage stamp, addressed to ‘Robt. Brookhouse Esq., Maun Cottage, Knutsford, Cheshire’.