Lot Archive

Lot

№ 1148

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29 March 2012

Hammer Price:
£60

Wooldridge Gold Medal, 40mm., bronze-gilt facsimile, obverse, a British fireship in flames in the act of breaking a boom; reverse, inscribed in raised letters, ‘Captain James Wooldridge led the British Fire Ships when four French sail of the line were burnt under their own batteries in Aix Roads’, unmounted, with edge bearing a catalogue number in ink, ‘C-18675’, ref. B.B.& M. (1988 edition), p.31, nearly extremely fine £50-70