RECORD MEDAL SALE
A WONDERFUL COLLECTION The larg-est collection ot British military and naval medals ever made, brought together by the late Mr. G. Hamilton-Smith, of Leigh Woods, Bristol, is to be sold at Glendining’s this year, it was announced recently. The weight of the collection is estimated at about 2cwt. There are the goldmounted sword presented by Trinidad, and the gold cross, valued at considerablv over £IOOO, awarded to Sir Thomas Picton, with the many decorations bestowed on Sir Howe de Lancey. Gold medals for the Peninsula campaign, 500 medals for "Wellington victories, and the very rare medals for the victories of Nelson and his sea captains, appear in the collection. In many respects the coin cabinet vies with the world-famous collections of Montague and Murdoch, dispersed over a quarter of a century ago, bringing in hundreds of thousands of pounds. Mr. Hamilton-Smith was the possessor of a selection of coins struck in Bristol from Saxon times to the seventeenth century, and he also owned rare pieces of the Stuart period, including the celebrated Oxford Crown, by Rawlins, and the “Reddite” Crown, by Simon.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 21, 16 April 1927, Page 24 (Supplement)
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185RECORD MEDAL SALE Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 21, 16 April 1927, Page 24 (Supplement)
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