Auction Catalogue

5 December 2013

Starting at 12:00 PM

.

Coins, Medals and Paper Money of Ireland

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Download Images

Lot

№ 3306

.

5 December 2013

Hammer Price:
£260

Royal Arch Mark Jewel, 1860, in silver, silhouetted design on stone, glazed and encircled with brilliants, rev. named (Presented with a Mark Jewel to Captn. Whyte, Royal South Down Lt. Infty, by his Brother Officers as a Token of Regard, June 1860), 43mm. Extremely fine £100-150

John Lewis Auriol Whyte, of Miltown Malbay, appointed Captain 10 October, 1857 [Edinburgh Gazette, 4 December, 1857], married Rosina Alice Pegge on 8 December 1864. The Royal South Down Light Infantry was a militia regiment that later became the 5th battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles