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Auction: 1008 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 148

Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, 17 March Boat Service 1794, gilded and contemporarily mounted in silver case, with lunettes, the silver band engraved in upright serif capitals ´I.C. Hall, test mark to silver band at 9 o´clock, otherwise extremely fine, with original ´button-hole´ riband Estimate £ 600-800 The published Naval General Service Medal rolls confirm Charles James Hall as an Able Seaman and/or Purser´s Steward aboard the Ulysses for the Boat Service action of 17.3.1794, and as one of just 29 recipients of this clasp recorded on the Admiralty roll. They further verify his additional entitlement to the clasp ´Martinique´ in the same rate and ship. Provenance: Sotheby July 1991 Spink July 2000

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£800