Auction Catalogue

7 December 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

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Lot

№ 1505

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7 December 2005

Estimate: £1,000–£1,200

Swedish Patriotic Society Large Gold Medal awarded to Count Gilbert Hamilton

Sweden, Patriotic Society, Large Gold Medal, for Knowledge and Work, by Molin and Ericsson, obverse, horse-drawn harvester, ‘Kunskap och Arbete’ in exergue, reverse inscribed, ‘Till Greve Gilbert Hamilton för Gagnande Verksamhet’, 51mm., gold, 104.87g., edge inscribed, ‘Guld 1923’, with neck ribbon, in case of issue in red leather with gold coat-of-arms on lid, extremely fine and rare
£1000-1200

Sold with some copied details of the Hamiltons of Sweden family history.