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Auction: 9024 - The Property of a Gentleman Orders, Decorations and Campaign Medals
Lot: 874

Army Temperance Association: India, 6 Month Medal (Crookshank Cross) (2), silvered-bronze; bronze (ATAI.1), good very fine Army Temperance Association: India, 1 Year Medal (2), silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1912 on one) (ATAI.2), good very fine Army Temperance Association: India, 3 Year Medal (2), one with 4 Year award ´Excelsior´ top riband bar, silver (ATAI.3), good very fine Army Temperance Association: India, 4 Year Medal (2), silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1914 on one, Indian Lion mark on the other) (ATAI.4), good very fine Army Temperance Association: India, 5 Year Medal (4), two with ´Excelsior´ top riband bar, silver and enamel (ATAI.5), enamel damage to one, good very fine (12) Estimate £ 40-50 The Crookshank Cross for 6 months´´ abstinence is named after George Cruickshank [sic] (1792-1878), an illustrator of political and social satirical caricatures. In 1860 he raised a corps of Temperance Rifle Volunteers, which became the 24th Surrey Rifle Volunteer Corps (Havelock´´s Own) in 1861.

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