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8 Aug 2021: Although this medal is part of the Watson Collection, Lester Watson's own lists give no provenance for it.

8 Aug 2021: Her complement later earnt another medal which has ended up in the Watson Collection.) Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Spink at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Although this medal is part of the Watson Collection, Lester Watson's own lists give no provenance for it.

8 Aug 2021: The medal forms part of what Lester Watson's catalogue lists as Group 1, and its provenance is discussed in the page for that group.

8 Aug 2021: Once in the possession of Lester Watson, Rodriquez's Cross shared the fate of the rest of the collection; inherited by Mr L. ... Hoyt Watson and his siblings in 1959, it was gifted to Cambridge in America in 2005 and then placed on loan to the

8 Aug 2021: Her complement later earnt another medal which has ended up in the Watson Collection.) Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Spink at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The Lester Watson Collection also includes two other medals that belonged to him, but as these are not attached to this group they have beenNonetheless, it was as a group of ... four that Lester Watson acquired them all, at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The recipient of this medal was Orderly F. Whittle of HMS Endymion (not to be confused with the earlier frigate of the name, some of whose crew'sthe Watson collection). ... The medal was purchased by Lester Watson at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The Lester Watson Collection retains the original citation, and an MS note in the hand of the person who purchased the Cross from Rodríguez's family in 1905. ... It came to form part of the Hamilton Smith Collection, in the auction of which, at the

8 Aug 2021: He may also have been eligible for the NGSM, but the example of this medal in the Watson Collection appears to have gone to a seaman more junior than would have ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: From 1910 the medal bore a portrait of King George V by Richard Garbe, and it is one of this issue that belongs to the Watson Collection. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Watson, Capt. A. S. A.", and it is assumed to be Lester Watson's own award for service in the Army Security Agency.

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson appears to have thought this a French medal--it is listed as such in his catalogue--which suggests that he may have acquired it with other French medals and ... therefore that the recipient may have also been French, but Watson's lists

8 Aug 2021: Although the medal is part of the Watson Collection, Lester Watson's own lists give no provenance for it.

8 Aug 2021: Although this medal has become part of the Watson Collection, moreover, it is not in Lester Watson's own lists and there is no information about how he may have acquired

8 Aug 2021: None surrendered. Lester Watson acquired Callaghan's medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Although this medal is part of the Watson Collection, Lester Watson's own lists give no provenance for it.

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Baldwin's in 1927.