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28 February & 1 March 2018

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Lot

№ 469

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28 February 2018

Hammer Price:
£440

Peninsula War Warrant, authorising ‘His Excellency Field Marshal the Marquis of Wellington K.G. & K.B. Commanding His Majesty’s Forces in Spain & Portugal... to receive from Sir Robert Hugh Kennedy Knt. Commissary General the sum of eighteen thousand two hundred pounds sterling for the Ordinary service of the Forces under my Command... Given under my hand at Head Quarters this 14th day of March 1814’, signed ‘Wellington’, watermarked ‘W Tucker 1812’, in card mount, creased but in very good condition for age and very scarce £100-200