shooting medal, skill at arms medal
Accession Number

NAM.1975-06-73-8

Description

Shooting medal, Canterbury Independent Rifle Corps, 1804. Silver with fixed loop suspender. Design engraved within raised rim on both sides. Obverse: Within a cross-hatched border a four-ringed target, the innermost ring (or bull) also cross-hatched. Superimposed over the target a stringed bugle horn. Across the centre of the target and upon the strings of the bugle horn, a depiction of a Baker rifle. Reverse: An outer circlet at the base of which are twin sprays of laurel, with inscription in the remainder of the circlet. Centre, plain except for hallmark.

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