Medals, Militaria, Coins & Banknotes - All items at Griffin’s Auctioneers

Griffin’s Auctioneers present their Medals, Militaria, Coins & Banknotes auction, with 170 lots across arms and armour, medals, numismatics and paper money.

The medals include a Battle of Britain Hurricane pilot’s group with ephemera, an 1854 Crimea Medal with Azoff clasp, a Baltic Medal and a number of QEII naval and service groups. The arms section is led by a 1780 pattern Tower seven barrel flintlock volley gun, a 16-bore percussion double-barrelled sporting gun signed for Manton and a .577 Mont Storm patent naval rifle. There are also flintlock blunderbusses, a Baker swivel gun and cased pairs of duelling and travelling pistols by W. Ketland & Co., Harpur of Dublin and John Edgson of Stamford, as well as percussion revolvers by Adams, Beaumont-Adams and Eli Whitney.

The edged weapons include a George III 1796 pattern light cavalry officer’s sabre by Thomas Gill, 1805 pattern Royal Navy officer’s dress swords, an 18th century Light Dragoons officer’s sword and East India Company and Wilkinson pieces, alongside naval dirks, daggers and fighting knives. Other militaria includes a Household Cavalry cuirass, Royal Navy bicorns and epaulettes by Gieves and a portrait miniature of Admiral Sir Ernest Troubridge.

The coins include a Beonna sceat, a Charles II 1679 guinea, crowns of Charles II, Anne and Victoria, an 1804 Bank of England dollar and a run of gold sovereigns and half sovereigns. There are also hammered and Roman coins, an 8 reales from the El Cazador shipwreck, modern piedfort and proof sets, and English and Scottish banknotes. Welcome to the auction!