Auction Catalogue

23 June 2005

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

№ 748

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23 June 2005

Hammer Price:
£25

42nd Foot Medal (1819), silver cast copy, obv. in the upper section - St. Andrew with his cross, legend above, ‘Nemo me Impune Lacessit’, in the lower - soldiers marching through mountainous country; rev. winged figure of Fame above the battle honours, ‘Corunna, Fuentes d’Onor, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse, Peninsula’, in a rectangle below, ‘42 R.H.Rt.’, 32mm., silver, with silver scroll suspension, Ref. Balmer R.336a, Tancred p.332, Hastings Irwin p.259, Payne p.204, very fine £30-50