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17 September 2004
Honourable East India Company Medal for the Capture of Seringapatam 1799, pewter or ‘fine grain tin’, fitted with silvered bronze loop for suspension, the loop a little loose, otherwise good very fine £150-200
Hammer Price: £260
Honourable East India Company Medal for Egypt 1801, gold, fitted with gold loop for suspension, an early Calcutta Mint restrike showing minor obverse die repairs, otherwise very fine and rare £1500-2000
Hammer Price: £1,300
Honourable East India Company Medal for Egypt 1801, silver, fitted with silver loop for suspension, good very fine £800-1000
Hammer Price: £2,000
Sultan’s Medal for Egypt 1801, gold, 1st Class, 54 mm, with original gold chain and hook suspension, nearly extremely fine and very scarce £3000-3500
Hammer Price: £3,100
The Second Mahratta War medal to Private John Spiers, 29th Light Dragoons Army of India 1799-1826, 2 clasps, Allighur, Laswarree (J. Spires, 29th Lt. Dragns.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, edge bruise and minor nicks, otherwise good very fine £3500-4000
Hammer Price: £3,200
The Second Mahratta War medal to Trooper Dennis Driscoll, 29th Light Dragoons Army of India 1799-1826, 3 clasps, Allighur, Laswarree, Capture of Deig (D. Driscoll, 29th Lt. Dragns.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, extremely fine £5000-6000
Hammer Price: £5,500
The Second Mahratta War medal to Captain John Ritso, 76th Foot, wounded at Allighur and later A.D.C. to the Marquess of Wellesley, the only combatant officer from Lord Lake’s ‘Handfull of Heroes’ to survive to claim his medal Army of India 1799-1826, 2 clasps, Allighur, Laswarree (Captn. J. Ritso, 76th Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, good very fine and an important medal £7000-9000
Hammer Price: £7,800
The Second Mahratta War medal to Sergeant Henry Allen, 19th Light Dragoons Army of India 1799-1826, 2 clasps, Assye, Argaum (H. Allen, Serjt. 19th Lt. Dragns.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, good very fine £3000-4000
Hammer Price: £4,800
The Second Mahratta War and Java campaign pair to Private John Cameron, 78th Foot (a) Army of India 1799-1826, 3 clasps, Assye, Argaum, Gawilghur (John Cameron, 78th Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming (b) Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Java (John Cameron, 78th Foot) edge bruising, therefore nearly very fine £3000-4000
Hammer Price: £3,300
The Second Mahratta War medal to Private John Atkins, 76th Foot Army of India 1799-1826, 2 clasps, Battle of Deig, Capture of Deig (J. Atkins, 76th Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, good very fine £4000-5000
Hammer Price: £5,200
A rare 4-clasp medal for the Second Mahratta, Nepaul and First Burma Wars to Lieutenant-General T. P. Smith, Bengal Native Infantry Army of India 1799-1826, 4 clasps, Battle of Deig, Capture of Deig, Nepaul, Ava (Lt. Coll. T. P. Smith, 49th N.I.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, extremely fine £6000-7000
Hammer Price: £7,500
Honourable East India Company Medal for the Capture of Rodrigues, Isle of Bourbon and Isle of France, gold, fitted with gold loop for suspension, an early Calcutta Mint restrike showing loss of detail to the obverse, test mark to the rim, otherwise good very fine and rare £1500-2000
Hammer Price: £2,300
Honourable East India Company Medal for the Capture of Rodrigues, Isle of Bourbon and Isle of France 1809-10, silver, fitted with silver loop for suspension, overall signs of contact wear, otherwise nearly very fine £800-1000
Hammer Price: £1,100
The Capture of Java medal to Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Grant-Peterkin, Bengal Volunteers Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Java (Peter Grant, Lieut. 4th Batt. Bengal Volrs.) good very fine £1200-1500
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The Army Gold Medal awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel George Gall, Commanding the Governor-General’s Bodyguard at the capture of Java where he was twice wounded Field Officers’ Gold Medal, the reverse inscribed ‘JAVA’ (Captn. G. H. Gall, Commanding Governor General’s Body Guard) complete with three-pronged gold ribbon buckle, both glass lunettes sometime expertly replaced, otherwise nearly extremely fine and unique to this regiment £5000-6000
Honourable East India Company Medal for the Capture of Java 1811, gold, fitted with gold loop for suspension, this re-fixed, overall contact wear, otherwise better than good fine and a rare original striking £3000-4000
Hammer Price: £4,100
Honourable East India Company Medal for the Capture of Java 1811, silver, fitted with silver loop for suspension, a Calcutta Mint restrike showing obverse die crack, otherwise very fine £300-400
Hammer Price: £500
Honourable East India Company Medal for Nepaul 1814-16, silver, fitted with silver loop for suspension, a fine example without the usual obverse die-crack, good very fine £800-1000
Hammer Price: £1,600
The rare medal for Kirkee awarded to Major Francis Hunter, 1st Madras Light Cavalry, captured the day following the action at Kirkee and imprisoned for five months in Wasota Fort, one of only five European recipients of this clasp Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Kirkee (Cornet F. Hunter, 1st Cavalry) long hyphen reverse, impressed naming, good very fine and extremely rare £10000-12000
Hammer Price: £9,000
The Third Mahratta War medal for the battle of Kirkee to Sepoy Gopal Bhave, 7th Native Infantry Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Kirkee (Sepoy Gopal Bhave, 7th N.I.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, edge bruises and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine and rare £1500-2000
Hammer Price: £2,800
The Third Mahratta War medal to Colonel Charles FitzGerald, C.B., 6th Bengal Light Cavalry, whose gallant charge at Seetabuldee averted disaster and decisively won the day Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Seetabuldee & Nagpore (Lieut. C. Fitzgerald, 6th Ben. L.C.) long hyphen reverse, impressed naming, toned, extremely fine and rare £4000-5000
The Third Mahratta War medal to Major-General L. W. Watson, 24th Madras Native Infantry, mentioned in despatches for conspicuous services at Seetabuldee Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Seetabuldee & Nagpore (Lieut. L. W. Watson, 24th N.I.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, a few minor nicks, otherwise toned, extremely fine £3000-4000
Hammer Price: £3,400
The battle of Maheidpoor campaign medal to Private Charles Feagan, 1st Foot Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Maheidpoor (C. Feagan, 1st Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, edge bruise at 9 o’clock, otherwise extremely fine £2000-2500
The Third Mahratta and First Burma Wars campaign medal to General Richard Budd, 32nd Madras Native Infantry Army of India 1799-1826, 2 clasps, Maheidpoor, Ava (Captn. Rd. Budd, 32nd N.I.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, some edge bruising and a little polished, therefore very fine £2500-3000
Hammer Price: £2,900
The unique Army of India medal awarded to Private George Bainbridge, 65th Foot, who received one of only four Corygaum clasps to European recipients and the only one to a British regiment Army of India 1799-1826, 2 clasps, Poona, Corygaum (G. Bainbridge, 65th Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, edge bruising and a little polished, otherwise about very fine and excessively rare £12000-15000
Hammer Price: £10,000
The Defence of Corygaum campaign medal to Guide Walli Dull Sing, attached Madras Artillery Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Corygaum (Guide Walli Dull Sing, Attd. Madras Artillery) short hyphen reverse, naming officially engraved in running script, light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise £1500-2000
Hammer Price: £3,000
The rare naval campaign pair to Captain George Tincombe, Royal Navy, promoted to Commander for services during the Burmese War from where he returned with Despatches (a) Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Egypt (G. Tincombe, Midshipman) (b) Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (1st Lieut. G. Tincombe, R.N. Actg. Captn.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, light handling marks, otherwise extremely fine £4000-5000
Hammer Price: £5,800
A scarce American War of 1812 and Burmese War campaign pair to Sergeant William Craig, 89th Foot, wounded at Lundy’s Lane in 1814 (a) Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Chrystler's Farm (W. Craigh, Serjt. 89th Foot) (b) Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (Serjt. W. Craig, 89th Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, professionally cleaned, minor edge bruising and handling marks, otherwise nearly extremely fine £4000-5000
Hammer Price: £7,200
The Waterloo and Bhurtpoor campaign pair to Private Benjamin Smith, 14th Foot, one of the Waterloo veterans who formed the front rank at the storming of Bhurtpoor (a) Waterloo 1815 (Benjamin Smith, 3rd Batt. 14th Reg. Foot) fitted with replacement silver clip and straight bar suspension (b) Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Bhurtpoor (B. Smith, 14th Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming (c) together with a Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Java (Benjamin...
Hammer Price: £3,800
The Bhurtpoor campaign medal to Corporal Benjamin Coldron, 59th Foot Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Bhurtpoor (Corl. Benjn. Coldron, 59th Ft.) short hyphen reverse, officially engraved naming, contact marks, nearly very fine £400-500
Hammer Price: £700
Honourable East India Company Medal for Burma 1824-26, gold, fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, light edge bruising and nicks, otherwise good very fine £1800-2200
Hammer Price: £2,200
Honourable East India Company Medal for Burma 1824-26, silver, fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, very fine £300-400
Hammer Price: £680
Honourable East India Company Medal for the Coorg Rebellion 1837, gold, 3rd class medal as awarded to Parpattigars, 45.29 grams, with integral gold loop for suspension, a rare original medal, one of only 20 awarded in this class, with overall signs of wear, otherwise very fine £4000-5000
Hammer Price: £4,600
Honourable East India Company Medal for the Coorg Rebellion 1837, silver, a slightly later striking, the obverse die distorted but not yet cracked, fitted with silver claw and ring suspension, good very fine5000 £300-400
Hammer Price: £280
Honourable East India Company Medal for the Coorg Rebellion 1837, silver, a slightly later striking, the obverse die in a similar state to the previous example, fitted with silver loop suspension, very fine £300-400
Hammer Price: £450
The Napoleonic War medal to Lieutenant-Colonel P. J. Willats, who fought with the 77th Foot in the Peninsula War and commanded a detachment of the 48th Foot in the Coorg Rebellion of 1834 Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz (P. J. Willats, Lieut. 77th Foot) polished, therefore nearly very fine £1200-1500
Hammer Price: £1,900
The Ghuznee medal to Lieutenant-Colonel R. A. Thomas, 48th Bengal Infantry, who was awarded the 3rd Class of the Dooranee Empire for his services at the capture of the Fortress Ghuznee 1839 (Major R. A. Thomas, 48th Regt. Bengal Infry.) contemporary engraved naming in the reverse field, fitted with original suspension and ribbon, good very fine £600-700
Hammer Price: £950
An interesting and rare group to Lieutenant Robert Pigou, Bengal Engineers, one of the Engineers at the Cabul Gate during the storming of Ghuznee, who later died whilst attempting to reduce a fort in Afghanistan when, having cut his fuse too short, he was blown up and his body thrown a distance of eighty yards by the sudden explosion of the powder bags (a) Ghuznee 1839, unnamed as issued, with original suspension (b) Royal Humane Society, large silver medal (Successful), (R. Pigou...
A scarce 3rd Class badge of the Order of the Dooranee Empire, instituted in 1839 by Shah Soojah-ul-Moolk Afghanistan, Order of the Dooranee Empire 1839, 3rd class badge, of ‘standard’ Afghan manufacture, 55 x 50 mm., gold and enamels, the central enamelled Persian inscription encircled by 15 small pearls, fitted with later gold ring and loop for suspension from the neck, chips to central inscription, otherwise very fine and rare £2500-3000
Hammer Price: £2,400
The Ghuznee and Sutlej campaign pair to Veterinary Surgeon Isaac Bicknell, Governor-General’s Body Guard (a) Ghuznee 1839 (Vety. Surgeon J. Bicknell, Bengal Light Cavalry) contemporary engraved naming in the reverse field, fitted with an attractive wide silver bar suspension (b) Sutlej 1845-46, for Moodkee 1845, 2 clasps, Aliwal, Sobraon (Vety. Surgn. J. Bicknell, G.G.B.G.) note initial ‘J’ on both medals, a common ocurrence at this period caused by confusion between the letters...
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