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Auction 43  25 Mar 2020
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Lot 604

Estimate: 180 GBP
Price realized: 460 GBP
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The Pavilion Collection, Commemorative Medals, William, Duke of Clarence (later William IV), appointed Lord High Admiral, gilt-silver medal, 1827, by John Henning, bare head r., rev. Britannia stands on the waves, with shield and spear, ships beyond her, HER MARCH IS O'ER THE MOUNTAIN WAVE..., 65mm. (BHM.1296; Eimer 1192; MH.583), extremely fine
bt. November 2014
The design of the reverse by Alfred Robert Freebairn (1794-1846) and the legend from Thomas Campbell's poem, Ye Mariners of England: 'Britannia needs no bulwarks/No towers along the steep;/Her march is o'er the mountain wave,/Her home is on the deep'.
(180-220 GBP)
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