Noble Numismatics Pty Ltd
Auction 118 31 Jul - 3 Aug 2018
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The 4th Lincolnshire Volunteers were formed in 1862 and in 1880 were integrated as Company C into the 3rd Lincolnshire Volunteers.
John Eley of Boston, Lincolnshire was a native Lincolnshireman who at the time he won the trophy was 21 and was a jeweller's assistant. In later years census records list him as a hotel proprietor to auctioneer in 1891 and auctioneer surveyor estate agent in 1911. It is believed that this trophy came to the Southern Hemisphere with one of his grown offspring and adopted kin, of which there were seven.
With research.
($180-200)