World Historical Medals
Lot 3805 Session 14 (4.30pm Thursday 24 November) Leslie J Carlisle C World Historical Medals
Estimate $100
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SOLD $220
NEW CALEDONIA, and Dependencies, (1877), Noumea presentation medal in bronze (51mm), by J.Lagrange, reverse inscribed, 'A/Mr. Carter/1877'. Some small digs on reverse, otherwise very fine.
Probably Douglas Carter of Joubert & Carter, a trading firm operating in Noumea. In 1877 Mr Carter was viciously attacked by a drunken gendarme, who then fired at police, but missed. He ran away but another Englishman caught him and held him until an arrest was made. Mr Douglas, an Englishman, was married in the West Indies in 1842 and died at Koumac in New Caledonia in 1909.
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