Baldwin & Sons
Auction 93 5 May 2015
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, British Historical Medals, The Loss of the East Indiaman Kent, Silver Medal, 1825, by Thomas Halliday, seascape with the Kent burning vigorously, a passanger descends into a skiff, to the fore the brig Cambria, 1 MARCH 1825, rev names of the towns that helped the survivors around legend, THE DESTRUCTION OF THE KENT EAST INDIAMAN, IN THE BAY OF BISCAY ..., engraved naming on edge, "EDWARD CONNELY CHIEF MATE", 48mm (BHM 1250; Eimer 1178; MH 578). Extremely fine with a few minor scuffs.
For further reading see Fearon, D, "The Melancholy Loss of the Kent, East Indiaman – 1825: An Account of the Medal struck to Commemorate the Event", OMRS, Winter 1988, pp.244-250. Connely's medal was not amongst those listed in the article and has not been noted by the writer in the intervening years. A presentation snuff box to Edward Connolly (sic) with a depiction of the Loss of the Kent is in the museum of the East Surrey Regiment.
Estimate: £300-400
For further reading see Fearon, D, "The Melancholy Loss of the Kent, East Indiaman – 1825: An Account of the Medal struck to Commemorate the Event", OMRS, Winter 1988, pp.244-250. Connely's medal was not amongst those listed in the article and has not been noted by the writer in the intervening years. A presentation snuff box to Edward Connolly (sic) with a depiction of the Loss of the Kent is in the museum of the East Surrey Regiment.
Estimate: £300-400