Honourable East India Company Medal for Seringapatam 1799, silver-gilt, 48mm, Soho Mint, a magnificent example mounted in a contemporary frame with integral florally engraved rings for suspension from a large rectangular bar inscribed ‘SERINGAPATAM’, fitted with four pronged ornately engraved ribbon brooch buckle, nearly extremely fine £1,000-£1,400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals - The Property of a Gentleman.

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Engraved illustration of this medal in Tancred’s Historical Record of Medals (1891): ‘Taken from a photograph of the Medal presented to Major Arthur Gibbings.’

Arthur Gibbings, Madras Establishment:

‘This officer, after passing through the different gradations of military rank, attained that of Lieut.-Col. in the army, 10th Dec. 1800; and was appointed Lieut.-Col. 3d Native Infantry, 13th Jan. 1800. His services commenced in India, in the year 1777, and terminated after the Mysore campaign, in 1800, in which latter year he was compelled to return to Europe for the re-establishment of a constitution impaired to excess, the natural consequence of severe trials encountered during a period of thirteen years’ service in the field, and various parts of India; and which finally obliged him, in May 1803, to retire from the service.’ (The East India Military Calendar refers).