Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Sardinian Crimea and Independence of Italy group of seven awarded to Captain Giuseppe Jest

Italy, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, Fifth Class breast badge, gold and enamel; Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, Fifth Class breast badge, gold and enamel; Independence Medal, silver medal, by Canzani, with 5 clasps, 1848, 1849, 1859, 1860-61, 1866, Al Valore Militare, bronze medal within outer wreath, the reverse inscribed ‘Passaggio Della Sesia, 21 Maggio 1859, Jest Giuseppe’; Great Britain, Crimea Medal 1854-56, no clasp (Jest Giuseppe Capittano Nel 10d. Fanteria.) contemporarily engraved naming; Ottoman Empire, Turkish Crimea Medal 1855, a slightly later striking, unnamed as issued; France, Second Empire, Italy Campaign Medal 1859, silver medal, by Barre, generally nearly very fine and better (7) £400-£500