Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to include a Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals

42nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot, an historic bandsman’s dirk c1815, semi-relic state, the plain 28 cm blade in quite good condition and with fighting point the remains of the shaped baluster handle carved and with pin decoration, the knop missing, the iron scabbard with only traces of the leather covering bears three decorated brass chapes, at the top ‘42’ over thistle sprays enclosing St Andrew, the middle and lower ones with thistle sprays, the reverse of the middle one finely engraved ‘Band’ in ornate script, ‘42nd Regt’ and ‘No.9’, small knife and fork missing, an old typed label on the reverse states ‘This dirk was found near the walls of Hugomont on the plains of Waterloo by my uncle Col H. Petrie during his visit to the battlefield’; together with a typical ‘tourist’s’ photograph album, c1900 (2) £800-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals and Artefacts.

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