Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. Including a superb collection of medals to the King’s German Legion, Police Medals from the Collection of John Tamplin and a small collection of medals to the Irish Guards

Four: Paymaster’s Steward H. Seeling, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (Henry Seeling); Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Paymastr’s Stewd.), officially impressed naming; St. Jean D’Acre, bronze, unnamed; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, fitted with swivel-bar suspension, this last good fine, the remainder with edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine or better (4) £350-400

Henry Seeling was born in Whitechapel, London and entered the Royal Navy as an Able Seaman aboard H.M.S. Pique in July 1836, seeing service as a Paymaster’s Steward off Syria in the same ship in the operations of 1840. Following several other seagoing appointments, he joined the Rodney in August 1851 and was present in her in the Sebastopol operations prior to being discharged in May 1855, aged 41 years.