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Lot

№ 222

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9 May 2018

Hammer Price:
£1,800

Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Nagpore (P. Kelly, 1st Foot.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, minor edge bruises, otherwise good very fine £2000-2600

Provenance: Cheylesmore Collection 1930; Blair Collection 1937; Sotheby, January 1973; Glendining, September 1989.

Approximately 95 Nagpore clasps issued to the 1st Foot, the only British regiment present. Another man of this name entitled to clasp for Ava.

Patrick Kelly was discharged in 1819 due to the effects of gunshot wounds to thigh received at Nagpore.