Auction Catalogue

17 September 2004

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

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

Lot

№ 1453

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17 September 2004

Hammer Price:
£80

American Civil War, an interestingDepartment of State Certificate dated 1871 and fully signed and sealed at the Adjutant General’s Office confirming that Private William Jordon 3rd New Hampshire Infantry Volunteers was ‘Killed in Action’ at Drury’s Bluff, Virginia 16th May 1864’, together with a handwritten letter from the Department of State Washington 10 November addressed to Mrs Amelia Jordan No 4 Smithdown Lane Liverpool England, acknowledging her enquiry of 8 October and now enclosing the certificate; together with various modern correspondence, an American flag and a brass flute, original items complete but in a delicate state £60-80