Lot Archive

Lot

№ 714

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4 April 2001

Hammer Price:
£95

Great India Peninsular Railway Volunteers, sports prizes, in silver (3), comprising a struck silver medal, 28mm, obverse with profile of Queen Victoria, reverse engraved ‘Middleton Memorial 1897, 2nd prize won by Sergt. G. Hill’, with claw and straight silver bar suspension brooch, this engraved ‘G.I.P. Ry. Vols.’; together with silver prize badges (2), both shield shaped, 50mm by 43mm, the first engraved ‘G.I.P.R.V., F. Co. Vs. D. Co. 1892’; the second engraved ‘G.I.P.R. Vols. 200 & 500 Yds. Coy. Challenge Cup 1895, Corporal G. Hill, Scores 42’, both with original brooch fitting to reverse, generally very fine (3) £40-60