Auction Catalogue

5 April 2006

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

№ 775

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5 April 2006

Hammer Price:
£120

Royal Humane Society, large, bronze, successful (Private Heny. Holland, 3 Batt. Gren. Guards, 14 April 1853) pierced with ring suspension, slight edge bruising and contact marks, about very fine £100-140

Ex Robert W. Tilling Collection, ref. L.S.A.R.S. Journal No.18, p.26-33.

Private Henry Holland, 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, effected his successful rescue on the Serpentine, on 14 April 1853 (Case No.15351).