397, Lot: 876. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

temp. HANOVER. Admiral John Jervis, Earl of St. Vincent. 1760-1820. AR Medal (46.5mm, 23.38 g, 12h). Earl St. Vincent’s Reward. By C.H. Küchler, after J. Flaxman. Dated 1800. EARL ST VINCENT’S TESTIMONY OF APPROBATION, bust left within wreath; 1800 below / LOYAL AND TRUE, officer and seamen clasping hands, crown above, Union jack in background field; all within wreath. BHM 489; Eimer 919. Near VF, scratches, holed.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.

“Specimens of this medal in silver were presented to those officers, seamen and marines who had followed Admiral Jervis from his flagship the Victory to the Ville de Paris and remained loyal to him during the mutiny at the Nore.”