Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Bristol Volunteers Medal 1814, obv. crest and motto of the city, ‘Royal Bristol Volunteers, In Danger Ready’; rev. ‘Imbodied for the Maintenance of Public Order & Protection of their Fellow Citizens on the Threat of Invasion by France MDCCXCVII. Revived at the Renewal of Hostilities MDCCCIII. Disbanded when the Deliverance of Europe was Accomplished by the Perseverence & Magnaminity of Great Britain and Her Allies MDCCCXIV’, struck silver medal with integral loop suspension, Ref. Hastings Irwin p. 301, very fine £70-90