LOT 114 Duke of Wellington, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, cased bronze medal, by Benjamin Wyon, bust of the Duke of Wellington profile left, the reverse depicting Dover Castle, to commemorate the Cinque Ports Banquet to the Duke of Wellington Dover 1839
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Duke of Wellington, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, cased bronze medal, by Benjamin Wyon, bust of the Duke of Wellington profile left, the reverse depicting Dover Castle, to commemorate the Cinque Ports Banquet to the Duke of Wellington Dover 1839. (very fine) Note: Former property of Admiral Sir William George "Bill" Tennant KCB CBE MVO DL, British naval officer. He was lauded for overseeing the successful evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940. Tennant subsequently served as captain of the battlecruiser HMS Repulse, when it searched for German capital ships in the Atlantic, the medallion has come down through the family by descent.
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