Pair: Able Seaman John Olver, Royal Navy, Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Algiers (John Olver); China 1842 (H.M.S. Blenheim), the last with later swivel-bar suspension and onetime brooch-mounted, fine, the first good very fine (2)

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Pair: Able Seaman John Olver, Royal Navy, Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Algiers (John Olver); China 1842 (H.M.S. Blenheim), the last with later swivel-bar suspension and onetime brooch-mounted, fine, the first good very fine (2)

拍品專文

John Olver served as a Landsman aboard the Superb during the bombardment of Algiers in August 1816 and as an Able Seaman in the Blenheim during the First Opium War. He was 'discharged dead', possibly as a result of the operations at Canton, in 1841.