Medals & Coins, Arms & Militaria - 3rd May 2018

Lot 1030

Royal Naval Exhibition 1891: a commemorative pendant badge: circular frame enclosing a piece of oak

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £3000

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Description

Royal Naval Exhibition 1891: a commemorative pendant badge: circular frame enclosing a piece of oak, openwork foul anchor and 'ROYAL NAVAL EXHIBITION 1891', reverse inscribed 'TIMBER FROM THE "VICTORY" 1805' and stamped '18ct', edge inscribed 'REAR ADMIRAL J.E.M. WILSON'; together with a Russian medal: Cathedral of the Don Cossacks' Army in Novocherkassk, conjoined busts of Tsar Nicholas II and Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, rev. a Russian Orthodox Cathedral, silver, 77 mm, cased, almost as struck; and a memorial medal, Souvenir of Alexander Kirkwood Senior, inscribed to W.H. Wills Esq., bronze, 68 mm, edge bruising, very fine. [3]