Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Leading Seaman J. Schofield, Royal Navy

China 1842 (James Schofield, H.M.S. Blenheim.), original straight bar suspension; Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Jas. Schofield. Leag. Sean. H.M.S. Vengeance.) contemporarily engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed as issued, with Crimea-style suspension, contact marks and pawnbroker’s mark to second, nearly very fine (3) £600-£800

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, April 2001.

James Schofield served as an Ordinary Seaman (having been promoted from Boy 1st Class) in H.M.S. Blenheim from 13 June 1842 and 28 March 1843.