Battle of Waterloo,Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blucher Tribute Medal,
Battle of Waterloo, Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blucher Tribute Medal, , white metal, 1815, by T. Halliday, an angel with a radiate crown above supports a portrait of Wellington three quarters facing, rev. Marshal Blucher on horseback tramples on a soldier, STRUCK BY J. PARISH IN HONOUR OF HIS OLD FRIEND BLUCHER/ THE FALL OF HAMBURGH'S TYRANT/ DAVOUST ELB'A EMPORER, 74 mm, (BHM. 902). The surface of the metal slightly grey, otherwise good very fine and scarce. £Sold
John Parish originally from Scotland was a prominent figure on the Hamburg Bourse. He acted as an emissary between England and Germany during the Napoleonic wars.
Louis Nicolas Davout was a celebrated officer in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic armies.
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