Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. Including a superb collection of medals to the King’s German Legion, Police Medals from the Collection of John Tamplin and a small collection of medals to the Irish Guards

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Troop Serjt. Major Josh. Heny. Pickles, 11th Drags.) contemporary engraved naming, contact marks, otherwise about nearly very fine £500-700

Ex Sotheby February 1879 and June 1904, Debenham’s August 1899, and Glendining’s May 1920.

Joseph Henry Pickles enlisted into the 11th Dragoons in 1836. As a Sergeant in the Crimea, he held the position of Orderly-Room Clerk and was made Quartermaster-Sergeant on 8 November 1856.