Auction Catalogue

2 July 2003

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 218

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2 July 2003

Hammer Price:
£1,000

A rare group of three Viceroy presentation medals to Heera Singh, C.I.E., Rana of Dhami in the Punjab

Earl of Minto’s Viceroy Presentation Medal 1905, silver, 52mm, inscribed on the reverse scroll ‘Rana Heera Singh of Dhami’, fitted with claw and ring suspension; Lord Hardinge’s Viceroy Presentation Medal 1910, silver, 51mm, inscribed on the reverse scroll ‘The Rana of Dhami’, fitted with claw and ring suspension; Lord Chelmsford’s Viceroy Presentation Medal 1916, silver, 51mm, inscribed on the reverse scroll ‘Rana of Dhami’, fitted with claw and scroll suspension, some discolouring, otherwise very fine (3) £400-500

Puddester 905.6.2, 910.4.2, and 916.1.

Rana Heera Singh of Dhami was made a Companion of the Indian Empire on 1 January 1913.