Auction Catalogue

20 April 2022

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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№ 452

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20 April 2022

Hammer Price:
£800

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Midsn. E. Price. H.M.S. Snake.) officially engraved naming by Hunt & Roskell, clasp loose on ribbon as issued, fitted with silver Hunt & Roskell ribbon buckle, light contact marks, otherwise very fine £300-£400

This medal is listed in ‘By Order of Her Majesty, The Crimea Medal’, by Martin, Pickering, and Satterley (OMRS publications, 2017) as one of just three officially engraved medals issued to H.M.S. Snake, being sent to Midshipman Price on 19 December 1855.