Auction Catalogue

2 April 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1334

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2 April 2004

Hammer Price:
£70

Bethnal Green Volunteers’ Medal 1814, by P. Wyon, obverse: a figure of Victory by a pillar, standing on a dragon, with the legend, ‘England’s perseverance dethroned Buonaparte’; reverse: an oak and laurel wreath with legend, ‘Bethnal Green Volunteer Infantry, Lt. Col. Carrick, Enrolled 13 Aug. 1803 and disembodied at the general peace of Europe, 24th June 1814’, 50mm., silver, unmounted, Ref: Tancred p.362, H.I. p.298, Payne p.212, slight edge bruising, very fine £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Regimental Medals from the James N Spencer Collection.

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