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Auction: 26003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 339

Sold by Order of a Direct Descendant

The Seringapatam Medal awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel W. Hull, Bombay Native Infantry, who fought at the Battle of Seedaseer and Siege of Seringapatam and spent decades of his life in the service of the East India Company

Seringapatam 1799 (Ensign Wm. Hull 1st. Battn. 2nd. Bombay Native Regt.), contemporarily engraved naming in neat capitals, silver, 48mm, set within a silver frame and loop suspension and mounted upon a fine and attractive silver straight-bar suspension, the silk riband fitted with a silver three-pronged buckle engraved 'Seringapatam 4th. May 1799.' and further fitted with a silver bar and pin for wear, sometime fitted with lunettes now absent, otherwise good very fine and an extremely attractive example

William Hull was commissioned Ensign on 22 September 1798 and, after seeing action at the Battle of Seedaseer (6 March 1799) and in the Siege and Storming of the infamous fortress of Seringapatam (5 April - 4 May), was promoted Lieutenant on 28 December the same year. Advanced to Captain in 1805, Hull was promoted to Major on 1 November 1817 and Lieutenant-Colonel in April 1821.

Sold together with a finely-executed portrait of the recipient, circa 1824, depicted in Full Dress uniform of the 4th Bombay Native Infantry, wearing scarlet coattee with buff facings, the lapels fully buttoned back, gold bullion grenades upon the collar, and gold epaulettes on each shoulder, with the Seringapatam Medal worn upon the left breast. He appears to have suffered a wound during his military service, as this portrait clearly shows a scar upon his right cheek and the right eye being a different colour to the left.

The reverse of the frame bears an old inscription, in ink: 'Lieut. Colonel Wm. Hull, 1st Battn. 4th Bombay Native Infantry. 1824. Painted by S. J. Stump.' Samuel John Stump (c. 1779 - 1863) was a prominent miniature-painter and annual exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1802-1845, particularly specialising in the theatrical world.

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Estimate
£1,500 to £2,000

Starting price
£1100