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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 664

A Superb Quality 1805 Portrait Miniature of Lieutenant A. McNeil, 75th Highlanders, water-colour on ivory wafer, 90mm x 75mm, oval glazed gold frame with open-work gold suspension, the sitter, in uniform, wearing a feather bonnet with tartan surround and a '75' cross belt plate, signed 'J.H. 1805'; a lock of hair displayed in the reverse of the frame with the initial 'M' fashioned with seed pearls mounted on a small blue enamel plaque; together with a later water-colour on card of the original, 140mm x 100mm, glazed and framed (2)

Lieutenant Archibald McNeil, Commissioned Ensign, 75th Highlanders, July 1897; promoted Lieutenant, February 1800.

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Sold for
£900