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16 April 2020

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№ 526

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16 April 2020

Hammer Price:
£2,400

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, 1 June 1794 (John Lindsay.) good very fine £1,500-£2,000

Provenance: Glendining’s, July 1919; Sotheby, July 1975.

John Lindsay is confirmed on both the Admiralty and the Greenwich Hospital rolls as a Captain’s Servant aboard H.M.S. Valiant at the ‘Glorious First of June’ 1794. Two other men of this name are shown on the rolls, one for Martinique and one for Syria.