Auction Catalogue

23 September 2005

Starting at 11:00 AM

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

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1379

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23 September 2005

Hammer Price:
£50

Prints, ‘A 12th Lancer’, a semi-cartoon style depiction of a mounted lancer armed with lance and flourishing a 1798 pattern sabre with which he has just decapitated a French soldier, ‘Pub. as the Act directs 21st June 1826 by D.Ash, 27 Fetter Lane London’; ‘A 17th Light Dragoon’, a similar print the mounted trooper wearing ‘bell-top’ shako etc., a French Cuirassier has just been decapitated, again by Ash of Fetter Lane 1st February 1826, contained in modern glazed frames; French Army 1st Empire Prints in modern glazed frames, though all with plate marks they are modern copies, all of the Garde Imperiale, 1st & 4th Regiments mounted officers 1813, Dragoon Regiment 1806, Staff Officers 1809, 1st Regiment of Lancers 1807, Grenadier Regiment band, drum-major sappers 1804, good condition (7) £80-100