366, Lot: 290. Estimate $500. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

COLONIAL MEDALS, British India. Sind, Punjab and Delhi Railway Company. AV Railway Pass (21x31mm, 7.54 g, 12h). Dated 1870. Openwork granular oval with anchor design; shank of anchor forming head for suspension ring; FREE PASS S. P. & D. RY Co in oval / Same, but 1870 in oval. Puddester 990.11; Mitchiner, Indian Medals –. EF, toned. With suspension ring attached. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Baldwin’s 89 (8 May 2014), lot 3754.

The Sind, Punjab and Delhi Railway Company grew out of the expansion of the Indus Flotilla, a steamship company established in 1859, which soon merged with the Scinde and the Punjab Railways. In 1870, the Sind, Punjab, and Delhi Railway completed the Amritsar-Saharanpur-Ghaziabad line, linking the Punjab Railway with the EIR, and providing a connection between Multan and Delhi.