Auction Catalogue

27 & 28 September 2016

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Lot

№ 1046

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28 September 2016

Hammer Price:
£160

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (...orge Shearer Royal Artill...) contemporarily engraved naming, unofficial rivets between clasps, clasps re-affixed to carriage, contact marks, nearly very fine £140-180

George Shearer was born in Huntley, Aberdeenshire in 1829, and attested for the Royal Artillery in November 1847. He served with No. 1 Company, 11th Battalion, ‘W’ Battery during the Crimean War, and was discharged in April 1870, after 22 years and 153 days’ service.