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Auction: 12004 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 136

Worlingworth Volunteers 1798
A circular struck medal, 38mm, silver, obverse featuring a volunteer soldier at attention with shouldered arms, a drum in the foreground, houses and tower with Union flag flying in background, reverse transposed, featuring a Crowned Garter with ´For King and our Country´ inscribed, a heart surrounded by nine hands in central field, the whole surrounded by branches of roses, ´1798´ above, ´John Henniker Major Commt.´ below, edge inscribed ´Robert Gooch´, edge bruising and heavy contact marks to obverse, therefore fine, reverse better, with applied ring suspension, this partially obscuring the recipient´s name

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£100