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A COLLECTION OF 1851 GREAT EXHIBITION MEDALS, Services Medal, 1851, in bronze, by W. Wyon, similar, edge named (Lieut: Finnimore), 48mm (BHM 2465; E 1461). About extremely fine and nicely patinated (£30-50)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of 1851 Great Exhibition Medals.

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Lieut. John Finemore, RN, b. 19 Aug. 1789; entered the service on 1 Jan. 1804 as a first class volunteer on the Minotaur; present at the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 (Naval GS medal with clasp); midshipman on the expedition to Copenhagen, 1807; from 1808-14 served on various flagships in the Mediterranean; in 1815 and 1816 his duties took him to Canada and the East Indies; served in the Coast Blockade in the later 1820s and from 1834 to 1855 commanded a station in the Coast Guard. A copy of his service discharge paper and an extract from O’Byrne’s Naval Dictionary, p.357, is sold with the lot