ADAM'S - THE HISTORY SALE - APRIL 26TH 2017 (Click Lot title for more images and to Place Bid)

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The History Sale
The medal was instituted on 12 August 1857 by Napoleon III to‘honour with a spe-
cial distinction the soldiers who fought under the flag of France in the great wars of
1792 to 1815’ and awarded to survivors of the wars of Revolution and Empire some
42 years after their end. It was designed by the great medallist Désiré-Albert Barre
and produced by the Imperial Mint.
€100-200
T. & R. Pugh,The Potter’s Alley Glasshouse, Dublin. Engraved with named bust of
Edmund Burke by Joseph Eisert c.1870, 23cm high
€ 300 - 400