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Auction: 5012 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 137

Military General Service 1793-1814 (John Foster, 81st Foot.), with claw and post but lacking the straight bar and riband carriage, very fine, an interesting, correctly named, medal Estimate £ 80-100Private John Foster from Hodnet, Shropshire is recorded as entitled to the clasp for Maida. A silver Regimental Medal engraved ´Maida 81. Pte. John Foster, A Mark of Esteem from the Officers. Presented for Military Merit, Anno 1810.´ was offered in the Spink Numismatic Circular, July-August 1959, item 15240. Described as ´silver 2 1/4" diam, Hall marked, fine´ it sold for £9.

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£480