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Auction: 22002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 150

(x) Hyderabad 1843 (T: Jewiss 2nd. C: Engr. E:I:C: Sr. Meteor), good very fine and rare

Only 50 medals with the Hyderabad reverse issued to European recipients aboard the Meteor (16), Comet (17) and Nimrod (17). However, twenty-one of these medals were not claimed by the recipients and were subsequently returned to the India Office. An example of each ship was “Given to Mr Stewart Mackenzie [a well-known collector of medals] in exchange for a new medal by permission of Lord G. Hamilton 24.4.77”. The remaining 18 returned Medals were in all probability melted down, leaving as few as 32 Medals issued.

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Sold for
£3,500

Starting price
£1100