Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Horatio 10 Feby. 1809 (Richd. Plumb.) naming rubbed, otherwise toned, very fine and rare £3,000-£4,000

Murray Collection, Sotheby, May 1926; E. J. W. Sang Collection, Glendining’s, January 1931 (VF edge rubbed); W. Waite Sanderson Collection, Glendining’s, November 1941 (NVF edge rubbed); Glendining’s, July 1975; The Armoury, January 1985 (£1500) to present vendor.

Approximately 13 clasps issued for the capture by the Horatio of the French frigate Junon, off Virgin Islands, West Indies, on 10 February 1809.

Richard Plumb is confirmed on the roll as an Able Seaman aboard the Horatio. One other man of this name is shown on the roll for Martinique, whose medal was sold by Sotheby in December 1993.