Lot 661: Sold for £1,500 hammer
A Selected Antiques & Fine Art Sale to include silver and jewellery,
Wednesday 16th January 2019 - Thursday 17th January 2019
An interesting collection of items relating to the life of Eugene J O'Meara, Surgeon - Lieutenant, including a Victorian gold Army Medical school medal, prize for Military medicine, in original Wyon box (a/f); a Delhi Durbar 1911 medal; and a silver Russo-Japanese war peace medallion, in fitted case; a first edition of his book I'd Live it Again, pub. Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1935; a telegram from the Crown Prince of Germany, a photograph of the tiger they hunted together, a photograph of the Crown Prince of Germany, Muttra 1911; an album of black and white photographs from his time in India; six scrolls of medical qualifications; and volume I and II of his uncle Barry Edward O'Meara book Napoleon in Exile...reflections of Napoleon...in his own words by...his late surgeon, pub. Jones & Co, London 1827 (a/f)