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Auction: 12004 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 86

Chatham and Gillingham Artillery Volunteers 1813
A large finely-engraved oval medal, with deeply embossed floriate border, 94mm x 70mm, silver (Hallmarks for London 1813), obverse featuring Britannia seated amidst a swirl of clouds, holding a cannon-ball which radiates beams of light upon two soldiers standing left and right on guard, a marquee top partially open above the clouds, from which a lion and a unicorn look out, ´Chatham and Gillingham Arty.´ engraved in exergue, reverse inscribed ´Prize Medal for the Best Shot of the Regiment the Gift of The Officers won by Mr. John Skillet September 1813´, nearly extremely fine, and exhibiting some of the most unusual artistry noted on any military award, with integral silver floriate loop suspension

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£500