Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Bethnal Green Volunteers’ Medal 1814, by P. Wyon, obverse: a figure of Victory by a pillar, standing on a dragon, with the legend, ‘England’s perseverance dethroned Buonaparte’; reverse: an oak and laurel wreath with legend, ‘Bethnal Green Volunteer Infantry, Lt. Col. Carrick, Enrolled 13 Aug. 1803 and disembodied at the general peace of Europe, 24th June 1814’, 50mm., silver, unmounted, Ref: Tancred p.362, H.I. p.298, Payne p.212, slight edge bruising, very fine £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Regimental Medals from the James N Spencer Collection.

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