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Bronze Navy Medal for Duncan Ingraham....
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Bronze Navy Medal for Duncan Ingraham. 102mm. Designed by S. Eastman, obverse sculpted by Peter Cross, reverse sculpted by James Longacre. Obverse design: ships St. Louis and Hussar obverse, text in exergue SMYRNA uppermost, left AMERICAN / SLOOP OF WAR / ST LOUIS., right AUSTRIAN / BRIG OF WAR / HUSSAR. Reverse design: within laurel-and-oak wreath and above an eagle with glory, PRESENTED / BY THE / PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES / TO / COMMANDER DUNCAN N. INGRAHAM / AS A TESTIMONIAL OF THE HIGH SENSE / ENTERTAINED BY CONGRESS / OF HIS GALLANT AND JUDICIOUS CONDUCT / ON THE 2d OF JULY 1853. / JOINT RESOLUTION OF CONGRESS AUGUST 4th 1854. In July, 1853 Captain Duncan Nathaniel Ingraham, while in command of the sloop-of-war St. Louis in the Mediterranean, interfered with the Austrian consul's detention of Martin Kosztca, a Hungarian who had declared in New York his intention of becoming an American citizen. For his conduct in this matter he was voted thanks and a medal by Congress. From a New York Times article dated December 8, 1855 concerning the original (struck in gold): "The Congressional Medal for Commander Ingraham is four and one-sixteenth inches in diameter, and the largest ever struck in the United States - of greater dimensions than the celebrated Jefferson Medal, in 1806, which was less than four inches." A nice example without remarkable flaws and with a nice chocolate patina.Auction Info
2009 December Signature Arms & Militaria Including Civil War Auction #6021 (go to Auction Home page)
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December, 2009
12th
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