Watch List notes:

COLONIAL MEDALS, British India. Major General Claude Martin. 1735-1800. Cast AV Medal (32mm, 14.31 g, 6h). After a Soho mint bronze medal by Mackenzie. Dated AH 1211 (AD 1796/7), but manufactured after. LABORE • ET • • CONSTANTIA, bust in military attire right; M KENZIE • F below / Legend in Urdu citing General Martin; AH date above; Edge: traces of attempted engrailing. Cf. BHM 424 (for type); Puddester 796.1 (for similar type in bronze); cf. Mitchiner, Indian Medals 523 (same). VF, soldered suspension loop attached.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Hess-Divo 283 (10 May 2000), lot 409.