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55. Portugal: Medal for Badajoz and Sabugal, silver gilt, 33mm, ‘BADAJOZ’ and ‘SABUGAL’ engraved to two central leaves, plain reverse, ring suspension with blue and white ribbon, small label with ink inscription and set with a wax seal, very fine. £300-500 56. Portugal: Commander’s Medal for Arapiles, gold and enamel, 33mm, openwork design with ‘ARAPILES’ to a central leaf, ornate gold bar suspension, contemporary ribbon, about extremely fine. £700-1,000 57. Portugal: Commander’s Medal for the Pyrenees, gold and enamel, 40mm, openwork design with ‘PYRENEOS’ to a central leaf, edge engraved ‘RAFAEL OUSELEY TENE CORONEL. DOS REGTOS No 8. E 18’; elaborate swivelling suspension arrangement, contemporary ribbon, loss to blue enamel on one side, nearly very fine. £800-1,200 58. Portugal: Commander’s Medal for Pyrenees and Toulouse, gold and enamel, 36mm, openwork design with ‘TOULOUSE’ in gold in a green enamelled ground to the obverse, and ‘PYRENEOS’ engraved to the reverse, gold bow suspension, enamel damage (appears formerly to have had an applied wreath to the outer circle) otherwise nearly very fine. £700-1,000 59. Portugal: Peninsula War, campaign cross for 6 years, gold and enamel, 35mm, gilt suspension bar, ornate gold slide buckle with white edged blue ribbon, some loss to enamel, otherwise good very fine. £1,000-1,500 60. Portugal: Peninsula War cross for two campaigns, a good early 20th century copy, enamelled silver cross, 35mm, nearly extremely fine. £50-70 61. Spain: a collection of campaign awards, reduced size or miniature, gilt and enamelled, comprising: Cross for Zaragoza 1808, 17.7mm, nearly extremely fine; Cross for Mora Y Consuegra, white cross with flaming grenades between the arms, surmounted by a trophy of arms, 18.5mm, minor damage to enamel, very fine; Cross for Talavera 1809, eight pointed cross, 17.5mm, articulated crown suspension, damage to enamel involving loss to parts of legend, fine; Cross for Chiclana 1811, 18mm, very fine; Cross for Pamplona and Bayonne 181314, 19.5mm, manufacturing flaws in enamel, otherwise nearly extremely fine. [5] £300-500 62. Spain: Navy Cross 1808, gilt and enamel, 24mm, for merit while serving in the navy between 1808 and 1814, damage to enamel on upper arm, very fine. £150-250 Ex. ANS Sale, Morton & Eden, 24-25 May 2006, lot 1003. 63. Spain: Navy Cross 1808, reduced size or miniature, gilt and enamel, 16mm, very fine or better. £80-120 64. Spain: Cross for the Defence of Madrid 1808, gilt and enamelled eight pointed cross, 41mm, flames to the angles between the arms, obverse with central oval displaying an arm holding a sword and the legend ‘AL VALOR Y FIDELIDAD DE MADRID’, suspension with modified crown, minor loss to enamel, good very fine or better. £200-300 Instituted in 1817 the design of this award mimicked that of an earlier French cross issued to suspected Spanish collaborators who’s property had been burned by their compatriots. 65. Spain: Medal for the surrender of a French Squadron 1808, gilt and enamelled uniface oval, 23mm, worn, suspension ring re-fixed to the bottom, near very fine; together with the Medal for the Battle of Bailen 1808, other ranks, uniface silver oval, 18mm, fine. [2] £150-250
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