V.C.S. "In Stock" -- Mr. G. L. Hancock-Dore grand-son of the partner of the firm who made the first V.C. with the four existing medals and the block of the metal from which they are made. A dozen pieces of bronze worth about is each, are lying in a strong-room of a jewellers' shop in Vigo street. W, They are the existing stock of Victoria Crosses cast from the metal of guns captured from the Russian Army at Sebastopol. As just announced, the first V.C.S of the present war have been awarded the firm the first V.C.S. when she institued the Order in 1856. August 1, 1940.