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Sold on 27 September 2016

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The Collection of Militaria to Welsh Regiments formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord

Llewellyn Williams Lord, Jr

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№ 511 x

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27 September 2016

Hammer Price:
£60

Junior Infantry Officer c. 1840 - 1855 a Watercolour Drawing ‘After Thorosin’, the bust length picture shows a handsome young man wearing his scarlet coatee with gilt buttons in pairs and box epaulettes of a Battalion Company officer, 24.5 x 32 cms now contained within an ornate plaster frame, annotated in the bottom right hand corner ‘after Thorosin’, within the top of the frame a pinned white metal badge depicting the Sphinx over XX1V, on the reverse the remains of a hand written label ‘This likeness ?? an Ensign in H.M. 24th Regt. ???, slight foxing not affecting the subject with damage to the plaster frame £100-150