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Details
LOT 4537
Group of Two [2] Commemorative Medals. 19th century AD.
Various types. Condition as seen.(46gr total.).
Provenance
Acquired from the early 1980s.
From the private collection of a late Gloucestershire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent.
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