Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Corp. Gavin Hamilton, 1st Batt. 79th Reg. Foot.) fitted with contemporary replacement silver bar suspension, together with a relic silver cased pocket watch supposedly carried at Waterloo, the outer case hallmarked London 1774, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise good fine or better £2,000-£2,600

Gavin Hamilton served at Waterloo in Captain R. Mackay’s No. 4 Company. Sold with ‘General Berthier’s Map of France’ of 1804, published by Samuel Leigh, Strand, April 1814, 38cm x 36cm, the card mount inscribed ‘Presented to Gavin Barham Hamilton by His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, June 1851.’