Auction Catalogue

10 & 11 December 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

№ 273

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10 December 2014

Hammer Price:
£500

The mounted group of five miniature dress medals attributed to Colonel Sir Lumley Graham, Bt., 19th Foot, late 41st and 43rd Regiments, who served as A.D.C. to Major-General Eyre in the Crimea, where he was severely wounded before Sebastopol and suffered the loss of his right arm

Crimea, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol, slide-on clasps on single side-carriages; South Africa 1834-53, a contemporary struck piece, the disc set into a separate mount; France, Second Empire, Legion of Honour, 5th Class, silver, gold and enamel; Turkey, Order of Medjidie, silver, gold and enamel; Turkish Crimea, British die, mounted for wear from a gold brooch bar, the French piece with slight enamel damage, good very fine (5) £340-380

Ex Derek Robinson Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, 2 April 2003 (Lot 985); see Lot 850 for his full-size Honours & Awards and a biographical footnote.