Auction Catalogue

18 September 1998

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Forte Crest Bloomsbury Hotel  Coram Street  London  WC1N 1HT

Lot

№ 17

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18 September 1998

Hammer Price:
£130

Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Sebastopol, Azoff (---Smith, R.M.Arty., H.M.S. M----a), engraved naming, contact marks and edge bruising obscuring some parts of naming, better than good fine £150-180

Corporal John Smith confirmed for Azoff aboard H.M.S. Miranda. A wooden steam corvette mounting ten 32 pounder guns and four 20 pounder guns. Launched at Sheerness dockyard in March 1851, she was sold for breaking in December 1869.