Worlingworth Volunteers Medal 1798, obverse: a volunteer soldier at attention with shouldered arms, at his feet a drum, in the background a tower; reverse: a heart encircled by nine hands within a garter, in turn enclosed by a wreath of national flowers with crown above, ‘Worlingworth Volunteers, Iohn Henniker, Major, Commt.’ (Samuel Ray,(.?.) Lieutenant), obverse inverted in relation to reverse and suspension, 39mm., silver, with fixed ring suspension, Ref: Tancred p.382, H.I. p.416, edge bruising, very fine £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Regimental Medals from the James N Spencer Collection.

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Worlingworth is in Hoxne Hundred, Suffolk.