A VAST single owner medal collection is being sold at a Dorset auction next month. 

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

The owner, who travelled extensively for business, started collecting medals when his wife gave him her late father's Second World War 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,” said 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.” 

Medals from more than 160 years are represented with no one particular regiment or campaign or military division collected.  

There are hundreds of medals from gallantry to coronation medals and the nearly 400 lots are estimated to sell for £200,000.  

The medals will go under the hammer at the Charterhouse auction in Sherborne on Wednesday, November 27. 

Richard Bromell and the Charterhouse team can be contacted for advice and valuations on medals, militaria, coins and other collector’s items at The Long Street Salerooms, Sherborne, 01935 812277 or via rb@charterhouse-auction.com.