The Douglas-Morris Collection of Naval Medals (Part 1)

Crimea 1854-55, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (R. Bunce, Cooper’s Crew, H.M.S. Firebrand) an officially impressed later issue, very fine

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Douglas-Morris Collection of Naval Medals.

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This duplicate medal was issued on 22 June 1893, and is impressed in the style then being used for East and West Africa medals. Such later issues provide the only means of obtaining officially named medals to ships that otherwise received unnamed awards.