Great Britain - Historical Medals
Lot 2261 SESSION 9 (4.30PM WEDNESDAY 27TH JULY) Great Britain - Historical Medals
Estimate $150
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SOLD $950
GEORGE III, Boulton's Trafalgar Medal, 1805, in white metal (48mm), by C.H.K(uchler), reverse inscribed, 'W.Malkinson/H.M.S Polyphemus' (BHM 584, Eimer 960). In a case and fitted with a wide ring mount with glass cover on obverse and reverse, the mount fitted with a loop and bar suspender with blue ribbon fitted, fine.
Ex Fred Scarffe Collection.
HMS Polyphemus was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line and took part in the Battle of Trafalger with two men killed and four wounded. She engaged the French ships Neptune and Achille and captured Argonauta. After the battle she towed HMS Victory, carrying Lord Nelson's body, back to Gibraltar.
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