Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Knight Marshals Volunteers (London) Medal 1801, a circular engraved medal with single stepped border, 52mm, silver (no hallmarks), the obverse featuring a crowned ‘GR’ cypher, with circumscription ‘Knight Marshal Volunteers 1801’, the reverse inscribed ‘Sir Jas. Bland Burgess Bart. Major Commandant to Mr Ed. Saville for Merit’, with fixed oval loop suspension, minor edge bruising, very fine £160-200

Referenced in Balmer, V.582.

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.