Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1st Surrey Volunteer Rifle Corps Medal 1806, engraved gold medal with ornate border, 51mm., 43.5g., obverse: crossed muskets with crown above, with the cypher ‘G R’ and the letters spelling ‘Loyal’, 1st Surrey Volunteer Rifle Corps’; reverse inscribed, ‘The Manœuvre Prize Won by the 1st Surrey Rifles at the Sham Fight on Wansworth Common, Oct. 1st 1806 from Colonel Hardy’, with ornate fixed ring suspension, nearly extremely fine £500-600

Due to the uncertainty that exists with regard to the provenance and manufacture of these early Volunteer awards, this lot is sold as viewed.