Overall: 30cm (11.8in) x 40.5cm (15.7in)
Engraved St Helena award document to a veteran resident in northern Italy ‘Juriant Jean à Borghetto’, together with a bronze St. Helena Medal. Framed and glazed.
The St. Helena medal was available to veterans of the the French Revolutionary armies and the Grande Armée and was issued under the direction of Napoleon III. The obverse shows the bust of Emperor Napoleon I. The reverse inscribed ‘Campagnes de 1792 a 1815. A Ses Compagnons de Gloire sa Derniere Pensee Ste. Helene 5 Mai 1821’. The designer was Albert-Désiré Barre, and his mark (an anchor) is below the bust.