Lot 200
  • 200

United States, New York Regiment of Volunteers in Mexico Medal, No Date [1848]

Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 USD
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Description

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Silver. Charles Cushing Wright. PRESENTED BY THE CITY OF NEW YORK – TO THE N.Y. REGIMENT OF VOLUNTEERS IN MEXICO, Arms of New York; below, C.C. WRIGHT SC; engraved above, Joseph Franklin; engraved below, Company F., rev., CHAPULTEPEC – CHERUBUSCO –VERA CRUZ –CERRO GORDO, America hurling thunderbolt, trampling Mexican eagle and serpent; below, C.C. WRIGHT SC, 52.0 mm (Harris pp. 167-74, pl. II), with integral loop, very fine

Catalogue Note

Hodder observed in 2005 that approximately sixty-one named specimens are known.