Auction Catalogue

18 & 19 September 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

№ 1188

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19 September 2014

Hammer Price:
£100

India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895, bronze (Lieut. Lord Inglis, 1st Bn. Gordon Highrs.), officially engraved in running script but rank and name re-engraved, good very fine £90-110

A curiosity that was first recorded in the mid 1930s by Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Dingwall in his notes on regimental medals as being in the Lees Collection. Dingwall had himself served in the Chitral campaign and was mystified by this award. The recipient does not exist and the medal must at one time have been named to an Indian follower, traces of a regimental number being discernible before the rank.