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Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 534

x Punniar Star 1843, unnamed as occasionally issued to Indian personnel, good very fine, with original brass hook and later silver eyelet suspension ring Estimate £ 280-320 Provenance: The Star was taken from the breast of a Subadar of the 39th Bengal Native Infantry by Lieutenant Frederick Montague Alison, 72nd Highlanders, A.D.C. to Sir Colin Campbell, after Alison had shot him in a pursuit during the Indian Mutiny, 31.12.1857 (letter accompanying the lot, which is somewhat distressed, refers)

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£750