United Kingdom. A Royal Naval Long Service &Good Conduct Medal, H.m.s. Excellent Auction Archive but either on de Salaberry's

but either on de Salaberry's orders or on their own initiative

The interior features a complete

The crossguard sits flush with the wooden handle

the obverse centre features a Gold medallion

pinned with a gilded bronze rank pip

United Kingdom. A Royal Naval Long Service &Good Conduct Medal, H.m.s. Excellent Auction Archive but either on de Salaberry'sType II Reverse (post 1848). Victoria (Wm ANDREWS, CH. P. O., H. M. S. EXCELLENT.). Naming is officially impressed. Dark patina, edge nicks, contact marks, original ribbon, very fine. Footnote: H. M. S. Excellent, also known as Portsmouth Gunnery School or Whale Island, was the British Royal Navy's main gunnery training establishment for most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.