British Historical Medals - The Tom May Collection

Lot 3053    Session 10 (7.30pm Wednesday)    British Historical Medals - The Tom May Collection

Estimate $2,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $2,700

GEORGE III, Mudie's National Medals, of British Military and Naval Victories, a set in bronze, George III dedication, 1817 (Eimer 1102); Settlement of the British at Bombay, 1602, East India Co.'s Victory, 1804 (Eimer 952); Naval Victory of the First of June 1804 (Eimer 856); Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797 (Eimer 882); Battle of Camperdown, 1797 (Eimer 886); Nelson Memorial, 1805 (Eimer 962, 963); Defence of Acre, 1799 (Eimer 906); Arrival of the English Army in Egypt, 1801 (Eimer 929); Egypt Delivered, 1801 (Eimer 934); Victory Honours of Scottish Regiments, 1815 (Eimer 1081); Royal Military College Presentation of Colours, 1813 (Eimer 1035); English Army arrives in the Peninsula, 1808 (Eimer 988); Battle of Vimiera: English Army Enters Lisbon 1808 (Eimer 989); Death of Sir John Moore, 1809 (Eimer 994); Passage of the Douro, 1809 (Eimer 997); Battle of Talavera, 1809 (Eimer 999); English Army on the Tagus, 1810-1811 (Eimer 1016); Battle of Albuera, 1811 (Eimer 1017); Capture of Badajoz, 1812 (Eimer 1021); Battle of Almarez, 1812 (Eimer 1024); Battle of Salamanca: British Army enters Madrid, 1812 (Eimer 1026); Battle of Vitoria 1813 (Eimer 1033); Battle of the Pyrenees, 1813 (Eimer 1034); Battle of San Sebastian, 1813 (Eimer 1036); Surrender of Pamplona, 1813 (Eimer 1037); Battle of Toulouse, 1814 (Eimer 1042); Peace in Europe, 1814 (Eimer 1046); England gives Peace to the World, 1814 (Eimer 1047); Treaties of Paris, 1814, 1815 (Eimer 1080); Visit of the Allied Sovereigns to England, 1814 (Eimer 1050); English Army re-enters Hanover, 1814 (Eimer 1058); Flight of Napoleon from Elba; Declaration of the Congress of Vienna, 1815 (Eimer 1064); British Army in the Netherlands, 1815 (Eimer 1066); Charge of the British at Waterloo, 1815 (Eimer 1069); Battle of Waterloo, 1815 (Eimer 1068); English Army enters Paris, 1815 (Eimer 1077); Surrender of Napoleon, 1815 (Eimer 1078); Napoleon at St Helena, 1815 (Eimer 1079); Admiral Lord Exmouth, 1816 (Eimer 1085); Constitution given to the Ionian Islands, 1817 (Eimer 1094). Medals housed in an album, fine - good extremely fine. (41)

See 'Australasian Coin and Banknote' magazine, Mar 2009, pp52-55.