Auction Catalogue

21 September 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 325

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21 September 2001

Hammer Price:
£90

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (2), (G. H. Webb, Sh. Corp. 1 Cl., H.M.S. Eagle; Chas. Callaway, Boatman, H.M. Coast Guard) both with impressed naming, the first with pitting, nearly very fine, the second very fine (2) £80-100

George Henry Webb is also entitled to the Egypt Medal with Alexandria clasp and the Khedive’s Star. Sold with some research which notes that he was serving aboard H.M.S. Beagle on the occasion that a Native Chief was hanged at the fore yard-arm on 25 September 1877, at Tama, New Hebrides.