Aust. Historical Medals
Lot 1635 SESSION 6 (9.30AM WEDNESDAY 31ST JULY) Aust. Historical Medals
Estimate $350
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $300
GEORGE IV, HBMS, Adventure and Beagle, 1827 and 1828, both in brass (26mm) (MH 579; BHM 1262). Planchet crack on second medal, extremely fine. (2)
Ex Spink Australia Sale 33 (lot 2083) and Eton College Collection.
The Adventure and Beagle were under the Command of Phillip P.King and surveyed the Straits of Magellan between 1826 and 1828. King was born in 1791, the son of Phillip Gidley King and was 'the first and for many years the only Australian-born to attain eminence in the world outside the Australian colonies' (ADB).
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