Lot 469
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Twenty-One: V. Fletcher, Yeoman of the Silver Pantry, Buckingham Palace, Royal Victorian Medal, E.II.R., silver; Coronation 1953; Jubilee 1977; Royal Household Faithful Service Medal, E.II.R., '1952-1972', with 'Thirty Years' Bar (Victor Fletcher), mounted Court-style as worn; France, Medal of Honour (2), silver; Germany, Federal Republic, Order of Merit, Medal, gilt and enamel, with related Dress Miniature; Greece, Order of George I, Medal, silvered; Italy, President's Medal (3), gilt (2); bronze; President's Visit to London Medal 1958, bronze; Jordan, Order of the Star, Fifth Class breast Badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with related Dress Miniature; Liberia, Medal of Merit, silver; Luxembourg, Order of Adolph of Nassau, Medal, silvered; Malawi, Order of the Lion of Malawi, breast Badge, gilt and enamel; Norway, Royal Household Medal, Olav V, silver; Spain, Order of Isabella the Catholic, breast Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Yugoslavia, Medal of Merit, silvered, generally extremely fine and an exceptional Group, all the foreign awards in cases or boxes of issue (21)

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Twenty-One: V. Fletcher, Yeoman of the Silver Pantry, Buckingham Palace, Royal Victorian Medal, E.II.R., silver; Coronation 1953; Jubilee 1977; Royal Household Faithful Service Medal, E.II.R., '1952-1972', with 'Thirty Years' Bar (Victor Fletcher), mounted Court-style as worn; France, Medal of Honour (2), silver; Germany, Federal Republic, Order of Merit, Medal, gilt and enamel, with related Dress Miniature; Greece, Order of George I, Medal, silvered; Italy, President's Medal (3), gilt (2); bronze; President's Visit to London Medal 1958, bronze; Jordan, Order of the Star, Fifth Class breast Badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with related Dress Miniature; Liberia, Medal of Merit, silver; Luxembourg, Order of Adolph of Nassau, Medal, silvered; Malawi, Order of the Lion of Malawi, breast Badge, gilt and enamel; Norway, Royal Household Medal, Olav V, silver; Spain, Order of Isabella the Catholic, breast Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Yugoslavia, Medal of Merit, silvered, generally extremely fine and an exceptional Group, all the foreign awards in cases or boxes of issue (21)
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Lot Essay

Ex N.I. Brooks Collection.

Victor Fletcher was born in 1929 and joined the Royal Household as a Plate Pantry Assistant in 1952. He was promoted to Under Butler in 1957, to Senior Under Butler in 1968 and to Deputy Yeoman of the Plate Pantry in 1971. Fletcher received the R.V.M. in 1974 as Yeoman of the Plate Pantry and died in 1990 whilst still serving in that capacity.