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6 & 7 December 2017

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№ 131 x

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6 December 2017

Hammer Price:
£750

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (Richd. Hickson.) light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £800-1000

Provenance: Glendining’s, March 1905.

Richard Hickson is confirmed on the roll as a Private, Royal Marines, aboard H.M.S. Hebrus. Another man of this name is shown on the roll for Syria, also a Private, Royal Marines, and possibly the same man.