BY RICHARD YEO, MID-18TH CENTURY

细节

A VERY RARE GOLD CUMBERLAND SOCIETY MEDAL WITH RIBBON
BY RICHARD YEO, MID-18TH CENTURY
With scrolled border, the obverse with the head of the Duke with the name 'CUMBERLAND' above, the reverse with the standing figure of Apollo leaning on his bow pointing to a wounded dragon with the legend 'ACTU, EST ILLICET PERIIT' above and 'PROEL. COLOD. AP. XVI MDCCXLVI' below, with integral scrolled suspension loop and retaining its original crimson ribbon with green edges
2in. (5.1cm.) x 1½in. (3.8cm.) oval

来源

Sir George Howard K.B.
Capt. John Hamilton
Returned to the family in the late 19th century and by descent to the late Richard Howard-Vyse

出版

George Tancred, Historical Record of Medals and Honorary Distinctions, 1891, p. 42

拍品专文

Sir George Howard (1718-1796) gained a commission as an ensign in the 24th Regiment of Foot in 1725 at age seven. He did not enter the service of the regiment until 1736. Sir George Howard went on to command the 3rd of Foot Regiment (Buffs), a regiment his father had previously commanded. Whilst with the regiment he took part in the battle of Fontenoy (1745) and later in the Jacobite rebellions fighting at the Battles of both Falkirk and Culloden (1746) where he commanded the regiment on the field as a Lieutenant Colonel in charge of 413 rank and file forming part of Major General John Huske's Second Brigade

Following the victory at Culloden the Cumberland Society was formed of twenty-seven senior officers present at the battle with one additional member being elected each year, the last being elected in 1776. The society met once a year on 15th April, that date being the Duke's birthday and the eve of the anniversary of the battle. George II authorised the wearing of the medal suspended around the neck on a crimson and green ribbon, the present lot being noted by Tancred as being the only known example of the medal retaining its original ribbon