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

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Lot

№ 640

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21 September 2001

Hammer Price:
£1,300

A fine Peninsula War group of four miniatures attributed to General E. P. Lygon, commanding the 2nd Life Guards at Waterloo, comprising: Order of the Bath (Military), gold and enamels; Waterloo 1815; Military General Service 1793-1814, no clasp; Russia, Order of St Vladimir, gold and enamels, each miniature with ribbon enamelled in its proper colours, on gold, and suspended from a silver buckle bar with pin for wearing, the whole of an unusual and ingenious design, circa 1850, good very fine and rare (4) £1200-1500

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By process of deduction there appears to be only one possible attribution for this group of miniatures, namely General the Hon. Edward P. Lygon, Colonel-in-Chief of the 13th Light Dragoons. He commanded the 2nd Life Guards at Waterloo and for his forward gallantry was made a C.B. and Knight of St Vladimir of Russia. He later received the M.G.S. with clasp for Vittoria.