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25 & 26 November 2015

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№ 679 x

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26 November 2015

Hammer Price:
£700

Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (No. 912 Corp. Jos. Naylor, 5th Dragoon Gds.) impressed naming, plugged and fitted with a swivel ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, very fine £100-140

Joseph Naylor was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire. He enlisted into the 5th Dragoon Guards at York on 13 July 1846, aged 22 years. Serving in the Crimea, he was awarded the Queen’s medal with clasps for Balaklava, Inkermann and Sebastopol and the Turkish Crimea Medal. A ‘Heavy Brigade’ charger. Discharged to a pension on 2 May 1871; he died in Halifax in 1894. With copied service and other papers.