NAM.1975-09-5-1
Shooting medal awarded to Capt Perry, Royal Anglesea Fusiliers, 1801. Silver, fixed loop suspender with ropework decoration, inscription and design upon a plain ground within a raised border on both sides. Obverse: Within a laurel wreath, an oval circlet. Within the circlet a flaming grenade.
Length: 58 mm Text: 45 mm
Obverse, in upper two thirds of circlet: ‘ROYAL ANGLESEA [sic] FUSILEERS [sic]’ Obverse, in lower third of circlet: ‘BEST SHOT’ Obverse, on ball of grenade: ‘III’ Obverse, either side of grenade, the royal cypher: ‘G R’ Reverse: ‘CAPT PERRY / WON THIS / PRIZE MEDAL / WITH A SCORE OF / 8 BULLS EYES / OUT OF 12 SHOTS AT / 100 YARDS / 10th April / 1801’ Reverse, above all, hallmark: London 1800-1801 Maker’s mark, in oblong cartouche with truncated corners: ‘I.E’ (John Edwards)