Single-owner medal collection in Dorset sale

A huge single-owner medal collection is being sold in Dorset auction house, Charterhouse in Sherborne on November 27.

The earliest medal in the collection is a Waterloo medal awarded to Cpl J Chappel (Coldstream Guards) with the latest medal in the collection a South Atlantic medal awarded to A Green (HMS Fearless).

The owner of the medals, who travelled extensively for business, started collecting medals when his wife gave him her late father’s WWII medals and he was immediately bitten by the collecting bug. 

“The owner, who passed away earlier this year, had been a Charterhouse client for many years and his wife has instructed us to auction his collection without reserve,” commented auctioneer Richard Bromell. 

Having had an interest in medal collecting for the past 50 years this is quite simply the best collection I have seen outside of a museum, and it has been both fascinating to research the medals as well as cataloguing the collection in preparation for this amazing single owner auction.”

Elsewhere in the sale, medals from over 160 years are represented with no one particular regiment or campaign or military division collected. The auction house said that there are hundreds of examples set to go under the hammer, from gallantry to coronation medals, with hopes they could fetch up to £200,000.