Orders, Decorations and Medals (21 September 2007)

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Lot 1

Honourable East India Company Medal for Mysore 1790-92, silver, the edge straight grained, 37mm., fitted with loop and small ring for suspension, nearly very fine £600-800

Sold for £1,400

Lot 2

Honourable East India Company Medal for Seringapatam 1799, silver-gilt, 48mm., Soho Mint, good very fine £500-600

Sold for £780

Lot 3

Honourable East India Company Medal for Seringapatam 1799, silver, 48mm., Soho Mint, fitted with loop for suspension, very fine £500-600

Sold for £650

Lot 4

Honourable East India Company Medal for Seringapatam 1799, bronze, 48mm., Soho Mint, good very fine £200-250

Sold for £300

Lot 5

Honourable East India Company Medal for Seringapatam 1799, pewter, 48mm., Soho Mint, fitted with decorative loop for suspension, two edge bruises to reverse rim, otherwise good very fine £180-220

Sold for £200

Lot 6

Honourable East India Company Medal for Egypt 1801, silver, late issue, obverse with die flaw, with fitting for ring suspension, some edge bruising and contact marks, very fine £300-350

Sold for £430

Lot 7

Sultan’s Medal for Egypt 1801, silver, unusual hollow construction but probably contemporary, 36mm., fitted with hook and chain suspension, traces of gilt, the centres a little crumpled, otherwise nearly very fine and scarce £600-800

Sold for £680

Lot 8

Honourable East India Company Medal for the Capture of Rodrigues, Isle of Bourbon & Isle of France 1809-10, silver, with loop suspension, good very fine £700-800

Sold for £1,800

Lot 9

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, 14 Dec Boat Service 1814 (Richard K. Barnes, Lieut. R.M.) contained in an old but later fitted case, original ribbon, minor handling marks, otherwise brilliant extremely fine £4000-5000

Sold for £5,000

Lot 10

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (John H. Helby, Midshipman) small edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £1200-1400

Sold for £2,300

Lot 11

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Trafalgar, St. Domingo (James Waters) with original ribbon, toned, good very fine £5000-6000

Sold for £6,500

Lot 12

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Trafalgar, Martinique (William Holloway) contained in an old fitted case, edge bruising, otherwise better than very fine £4500-5500

Sold for £6,000

Lot 13

Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Corunna, Salamanca (E. Purvis, Lieut. 4th Foot) top clasp slightly buckled, otherwise very fine £1400-1600

Sold for £1,600

Lot 14

Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Corunna, Nive (Capt. J. Baxter, 12th Foot) contemporary re-impressed naming, fitted with replacement suspension claw, edge bruise, otherwise very fine £100-150

Sold for £360

Lot 15

Waterloo 1815 (Robert Goose, 11th Reg. Light Drag.), unofficially renamed, replacement silver mount and ring suspension, good very fine £300-350

Sold for £430

Lot 16

Waterloo 1815 (Corp. William Clark, 1st Batt. 52nd Reg. Foot) with replacement silver straight bar suspension, inscribed, ‘Peninsula’, edge bruising and contact marks, good fine £1400-1800

Sold for £4,500

Lot 17

Brunswick Waterloo 1815 (Ernst. Metge, Leib. Bt.), original steel clip and small ring suspension, slight edge bruising and contact marks, about very fine £500-600

Sold for £720

Lot 18

Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Bhurtpoor (W. Rostrick, 14th Foot), long hyphen reverse, Indian style impressed naming, minor edge bruising, good very fine £800-900

Unsold

Lot 19

Honourable East India Company Medal for the Coorg Rebellion 1837, silver, substantial die flaws to obv., late issue, with loop suspension, good very fine £300-350

Sold for £520

Lot 20

St. Jean d’Acre 1840, silver, unnamed as issued, pierced with swivel ring and straight bar suspension, with silver brooch bar with stick-pin, in (damaged) card box of issue, inscribed with monogram ‘WBP’ and ‘3 Novr. 1840, H.M.S. “Benbow”’, nearly extremely fine £240-280

Sold for £460

Lot 21

Cabul 1842, unnamed as issued, with a refitted steel clip and straight bar suspension, good very fine £240-280

Sold for £270

Lot 22

China 1842, (Thomas Wilson, Lieut. H.M.S. Blenheim) with clasp ‘China 1842’ loose on ribbon as issued, contemporary alteration to ring and straight bar suspension, and fitted with ribbon buckle and pin brooch, contact marks and edge bruising but generally very fine and rare £2500-3000