Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The group of miniature awards worn by Colonel Sir Thomas Noel Hill, K.C.B., Grenadier Guards, late Portuguese Army, who was later Deputy Adjutant-General in Canada, a custom made bar mounted with seven uniface miniatures, comprising the Portuguese Campaign Cross for five campaigns; Order of the Bath; Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword; Waterloo Medal, this worked in relief entirely by hand, not die-struck; Bavarian Order of Maximilian Joseph; Army Gold Cross; and Portuguese Commanders Cross for four actions, gold, silver-gilt, silver and enamels as appropriate, some enamel chips and loss of detail to centres, otherwise nearly very fine and a rare contemporary set of Napoleonic miniatures £2000-3000

See Lot 1166 for Colonel Hill’s full sized awards.