Auction Catalogue
Apprentice Boys of Derry Club (Founded 1814), a silver medal by W.S. Mossop, bust of George Walker almost facing, rev. the gates of Derry with the attackers repulsed, edge named (F.I. Sandys Lindesay), 41mm (W 1988; BHM 855; E 1060; D & W 118/144). Some marks and scuffing, otherwise very fine; with clip and ring for suspension
£120-150
Provenance: J. Spencer Collection, DNW Auction M5, 17 December 2007, lot 1238.
Frederick John Sandys Lindesay (1830-77), 3rd Dragoon Guards, 4th Hussars and 17th Foot, was a member of the Lindesay family of Loughry, co Tyrone, prominent archetypal Ulster Protestant ascendants settled in Ireland following the confiscation of the lands of the O’Neills of Ulster, c. 1610. Sold with relevant copied extract from Burke’s Landed Gentry of Ireland
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