Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 June 2014

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 445

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25 June 2014

Hammer Price:
£1,250

Arctic Medal 1818-55 (Thos. Green) contemporary engraved naming, fitted with T. B. Bailey Coventry top suspension, contact wear and some pitting, therefore good fine £800-1000

Thomas Green served aboard the Alexander in the 1818 expedition to find the North West Passage, leaving England in May of that year. Green was transferred to a whaler for passage to hospital in England on 16 July 1818. According to Poulsom & Myres ‘No Medal issued’.