Auction Catalogue

6 July 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

№ 1029

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6 July 2004

Hammer Price:
£400

Royal Military Academy, Pollock Medal, 3rd type, by B. Wyon, obverse: bust of Major-General Sir George Pollock facing left, in uniform, wearing the star of the Knight Grand Cross of the Bath and the Cabul Medal 1842, with the circumscription, ‘Pollock Cabul 1842’; reverse: ‘Royal Military Academy Pollock Prize, Presented by the British inhabitants of Calcutta and awarded by the Court of Directors of the East India Company to the Most Distinguished Cadet of the Season’, unnamed, gold, 45mm., 63.37g., in Wyon, Langham Chambers fitted case of issue, extremely fine £400-500