Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Loyal United West and East Ham Volunteers Medal 1799, silver medal, obverse: a volunteer soldier at attention with shouldered arms, ‘The Loyal United West and East Ham Volunteers’, in exergue: ‘Associated May 18, 1798’; reverse: the Henniker coat-of-arms with regimental flags to either side, above, ‘For preservation of internal peace our King and Constitution’; in exergue: ‘Presented by Sr. Iohn Henniker Bt., Stratford House, Essex 1799’, 38mm., silver, fitted with rather crude claw and bar suspension, edge bruising and contact wear, good fine £60-£80