Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

China 1842 (John Pardon, Royal Marines) with later ‘original-style’ suspension, and top silver brooch bar, traces of previously having been held in a circular mount, with replacement suspension and small hole neatly plugged at 6 o’clock (with the ‘l’ of ‘Royal’ very neatly re-engraved as a consequence), edge bruising and contact marks, very fine £300-£400

Mounted for display purposes alongside an engraved piece of Chinese jade; and an image of the action.

John Pardon served as a Private, Royal Marines, in H.M.S. Cornwallis during the First China War. He transferred to H.M.S. Apollo ‘for passage to England [only]’, on 17 November 1842, and was discharged to Plymouth Headquarters on 30 August 1843.

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