Auction Catalogue

12 November 2020

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Lot

№ 109

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12 November 2020

Hammer Price:
£700

Four: Boy J. Sixsmith, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (John Sixsmith.); Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (John Sixsmith), contemporarily engraved naming; St. Jean d’Acre 1840, bronze, unnamed as issued, fitted with later rings for suspension; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed as issued, fitted with a BWM-style fixed suspension, contact marks and occasional edge bruising, good fine (4) £700-£900

John Sixsmith was born in Portsmouth on 18 May 1825, serving as a Boy in H.M.S. Thunderer during the operations on and off the coast of Syria in 1840. He remained in naval service until 30 November 1875, when he was pensioned from H.M.S. Vanguard (Coast Guard).