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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 692

Miniature Awards: A Great War M.C., D.C.M. Group of Eight Military Cross, G.V.R.; Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R.; 1914 Star, with Bar; British War and Victory Medals; 1939-1945 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal, M.I.D. Oakleaf, good very fine, mounted for wear, with related Spink and Son, London box and Melton Mowbray Journal newspaper cutting, dated 10.2.1973 (8) Estimate £ 100-120 Provenance: The group found in a bus shelter near the Old Dalby village green, Melton, Leicestershire, 6.2.1973, and handed into the police as lost property. They featured in an article in the Melton Mowbray Journal, 10.2.1973 (where the 1914 Star, with Bar was incorrectly described as the Imperial Service Medal with Bar), but went unclaimed, and were returned to the finder in the same Spink and Son box in which they had been found.

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