Baldwin's of St. James's
Auction 8 20 Sep 2017
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Commemorative Medals, The Absent Minded Beggar, the National Commemorative Medal, silver, 1899-1900, by F. Bowcher [Spink and Son], soldier with headband, helmet discarded, standing holding rifle with fixed bayonet, rev. Union flag with rose, thistle, shamrock and palm branch, THE QUEEN GOD BLESS HER and further legend, 45 mm. (BHM.3680; Eimer 1851; Hern 68; CMZAR 26); another, smaller, gilt-bronze with patriotic enamelled suspender, 22.5mm., in red and pale blue card boxes of issue, both matt surface, mint state (2)
The inner lids of the boxes state respectively, "... price 12/6 of which amount 1/- [price 2/6 of which amount 6d] - will be handed to the proprietors of the Daily Mail for the Kipling Poem War Fund". The obverse image is after the drawing by Richard Caton Woodville commissioned by the Daily Mail to illustrate Kipling's poem. (120-150 GBP)
The inner lids of the boxes state respectively, "... price 12/6 of which amount 1/- [price 2/6 of which amount 6d] - will be handed to the proprietors of the Daily Mail for the Kipling Poem War Fund". The obverse image is after the drawing by Richard Caton Woodville commissioned by the Daily Mail to illustrate Kipling's poem. (120-150 GBP)