The Bill and Angela Strong Medal Collection
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Lot 222
Date of Auction: 18th May 2011
Sold for £2,000
Estimate: £700 - £900
Baltic 1854-55 (G. Gasson, Rl. Sappers & Miners) officially impressed naming, good very fine and scarce £700-900
Footnote
The only Baltic medals to the British Army were those issued to the Royal Engineers and Royal Sappers & Miners. Although no medal roll survives approximately 106 medals are thought to have been presented, all officially impressed.Sapper George Casson was a brickmaker who, after participating in the operations in the Baltic, died of sickness in camp before Sebastopol on 26 November 1855.