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№ 222

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18 May 2011

Hammer Price:
£2,000

Baltic 1854-55 (G. Gasson, Rl. Sappers & Miners) officially impressed naming, good very fine and scarce £700-900

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bill and Angela Strong Medal Collection.

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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.