Orders, Decorations & Medals - British Singles

Lot 4818    Session 15 (7.30pm Thursday)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - British Singles

Estimate $500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,100

PUNJAB MEDAL 1848-49, - clasp - Mooltan, with brooch bar suspender. Lieut John Augs. Fuller, Engineers. Impressed. Light scratch in obverse field, a few small edge nicks on obverse, otherwise nearly extremely fine.

Ex Trevor Bushell Taylor Collection.

Lt Colonel John Augustus Fuller was designer of the Bombay High Court Building completed in 1878 and it is one of the premier institutions in the city. The building is a four-storied stone structure 562 feet long and, at its highest point, 178 feet high. The built up area of the ground and three floors of the original building is a grand total of over 80,000 square feet, topped by a handsome gabled roof.

Lt Col and Brevet Col John Augustus Fuller (late Bombay) appointed Colonel - LG 2/2/1875, p399.

On the Plantagenet Roll it shows one of the descendants of Sir Armine Wodehouse 5th Bt and MP for Norfolk 1737-68 as Amabel Lucy Wodehouse married as 2nd wife 13Apr1898 to General John Augustus Fuller CIE, Royal Engineers.

With research.