Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Punjab 1848-49, no clasp (Actg. Master A. Daniel, Ind. Flot.) one or two edge bruises and somewhat polished, otherwise very fine and rare £800-1000

Approximately 130 no-clasp Punjab 1848-49 Medals were issued to European officers and men of the Indus Flotilla (see published roll by Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris, R.N., in Naval Medals 1793-1856).

Anthony Daniel, who was born in 1810, is verified as having participated in the Punjab operations of 1848-49 aboard the steam tender Napier (above roll refers). He died in Bombay on 8 April 1854; sold with a recent image of an old gilt-framed portrait photograph of an Indian Navy officer, believed to be Daniel, wearing a Punjab Medal.

The portrait photograph is believed to be of 1st class Engineer T. Knox (see Lot 755)