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Auction 55  26 Jan 2022
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Lot 203

Estimate: 100 GBP
Price realized: 210 GBP
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Boer War, The South African Campaign 1899-1900, bronze memorial medal, 1900, by Emil Fuchs, armed female figure standing, a harbour and troops behind, PAX above, rev. winged angel offers laurel branch to fallen soldier, TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR QUEEN AND COUNTRY and in tablet, SOUTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN 1899 – 1900, mm. H (Heaton, Birmingham), 71mm. (BHM.3679; Eimer 1850; BDM VII. 330), in red leather (Mint, Birmingham) case of issue (one side to lid missing), extremely fine, scarce
The medal was re-issued in 1902 in greater numbers, to celebrate the end of the war and Peace. This medal shows the date 1902 in the tablet and QUEEN AND COUNTRY reads KING.
(100-140 GBP)
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