Auction Catalogue

28 July 1993

Starting at 11:30 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Westbury Hotel  37 Conduit Street  London  W1S 2YF

Lot

№ 183

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28 July 1993

Hammer Price:
£520

The unique group of eight dress miniatures worn by Colonel Sir Henry Hozier, Assistant Military Secretary to Lord Napier of Magdala, Times War Correspondent, Secretary to Lloyd's of London and father of Lady Clementine Churchill.

Coronation 1902, silver; China 1857, 2 clasps, T.F. 1860, Pekin 1860; Abyssinia 1867; Volunteer Decoration; Prussian Iron Cross 1870, with 25 Year oak leaf cluster; Prussian Cross for Denmark 1866; Prussian medal for the Franco-Prussian War 1870-71, 5 clasps, Metz, Loigny-Poupry, Le Mans, Orleans, Paris; Wilhelm I Centenary Medal 1897, mounted as worn on a contemporary wearing bar by Hunt & Roskell, very fine (8)