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19 & 20 July 2017

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Lot

№ 1341

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20 July 2017

Hammer Price:
£150

Devonshire Volunteers Medal 1807, a circular engraved medal with multi stepped border, 93mm, silver (no hallmarks), the obverse featuring a rifleman standing to attention, legend around ‘Devonshire Volunteers. Dartington Company’, the reverse inscribed around the edge ‘Awarded to Mr George Chumm for’, and in the centre ‘Merit by the Officers of his Company. Octr. 19th 1807’, with stirrup suspension loop, very fine £180-220

Referenced in Balmer, V.A.99.

Note: Owing to the uncertainty that exists with the original provenance and manufacture of some early engraved Volunteer Medals, this lot is sold as viewed.