Orders, Decorations and Medals (18 September 1998)

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A Collection of Medals to the 90th Foot, Scottish Rifles and Cameronians

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Lot 1

Honourable East India Company Medal for Seringapatam 1799, silver-gilt, Soho Mint, fitted with claw and hook for suspension, the gilding not cntemporary, one or two edge bruises, otherwise good very fine £200-250

Sold for £240

Lot 2

Alexander Davison’s Medal for The Nile 1798, bronze-gilt, contained in a contemporary circular fitted leather case, a most attractive example, nearly extremely fine £200-250

Sold for £550

Lot 3

Sultan’s Gold Medal for Egypt 1801, 2nd class, 48 mm, lacking hook and chain suspension, otherwise good very fine and rare £1000-1200

Sold for £820

Lot 4

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Orthes (J. Simms, 6th Foot), edge bruising, therefor nearly very fine £300-350

Sold for £300

Lot 5

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Barrosa (A. W. Holscher, Asst. Surgn. 2nd Hussars K.G.L.) medal sometime mounted and since reconstituted with replacement suspension, scratching and edge bruising, therefore good fine but rare to this regiment £200-300

Sold for £260

Lot 6

The rare 12 clasp Peninsula War medal awarded to Colour Sergeant John Snelling, 40th Foot, who was a Volunteer on the ‘Forlorn Hope’ at the Storming of St Sebastian Military General Service 1793-1814, 12 clasps, Vimiera, Talavera, Busaco, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, St. Sebastian, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse (J. Snelling, Serjt. 40th Foot) contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise generally very fine and rare £...

Sold for £1,500

Lot 7

Waterloo 1815 (Giles Lovett, 15th or King’s Reg. Hussars) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, nearly extremely fine and very scarce thus £600-700

Sold for £750

Lot 8

Waterloo 1815, naming details erased, fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, nearly very fine £100-150

Sold for £110

Lot 9

St. Jean d’Acre 1840, silver, with rings for suspension, very fine £70-90

Sold for £80

Lot 10

Cabul 1842, crudely fitted with steel clip and straight bar suspension (No. 921 Thomas Cullem, 31st Regt.), naming engraved in the correct regimental style, very fine £200-250

Sold for £200

Lot 11

China 1842 (The Master of the Mint to G. F. Mathison Esqr.) good very fine £80-120

Sold for £240

Lot 12

Maharajpoor Star 1843 (Private Richard Warren, H.M. 39th Regt.) fitted with contemporary replacement suspension, good very fine £250-300

Sold for £230

Lot 13

Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Mooltan, Goojerat (Lieut. T. R. Crawley, 15th Hussars, Extra A.D.C.) contemporary re-engraved naming, fitted with silver ribbon suspension brooch, contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £40-50

Sold for £85

Lot 14

Crimea 1854-56 (2), no clasp (No.3254 James Hargraves, 97 Foot) regimentally impressed naming; 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Danl. Blackmore, R.M.L.I.) contemporary engraved naming, contact marks and edge bruising, good fine and better (2) £80-100

Sold for £120

Lot 15

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (S. Naylor, Grenadier Gds.) officially impressed naming, edge bruises, otherwise better than very fine £140-160

Sold for £160

Lot 16

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Alma (1596 Thomas Hume, 42nd Royal Highlanders), regimentally engraved, minor edge bruise, nearly very fine £100-120

Sold for £110

Lot 17

Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Sebastopol, Azoff (---Smith, R.M.Arty., H.M.S. M----a), engraved naming, contact marks and edge bruising obscuring some parts of naming, better than good fine £150-180

Sold for £130

Lot 18

Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Sebastopol, Azoff (Nics. Hammill, A.B.), officially impressed, one or two edge bruises, otherwise very fine £120-150

Sold for £200

Lot 19

Turkish Crimea 1855, French issue, fitted with silver double loop suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £80-100

Sold for £70

Lot 20

Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, good very fine £40-45

Sold for £40

Lot 21

Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, fitted with Crimea suspension, good very fine £40-45

Sold for £55

Lot 22

Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, edge inscribed ‘Thos. Daniel Leek, 11th Husrs.’, fitted with Crimea suspension, laquered, good very fine £25-35