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Electronic Auction 531  25-26 Jan 2023
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Lot 1648

Estimate: 1500 USD
Price realized: 900 USD
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Medal Bar for Diplomatic Dress – Decorations of British India. 19th-20th century. Six Decorations. Five miniature versions of British civil honors attached by order ribbons to metal bar with clasp to be worn with civilian dress (two now detached). Medals include (from left to right):



Order of the Star of India (CSI)



Royal Victorian Order (MVO)



Order of the British Empire (military ribbon)



Gold Delhi Durbar of 1903



Gold Dehli Durbar of 1911



A separate Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal for Public Service in India

. Some deterioration to the ribbons. As made. A fascinating collection of civic medals for service to the British in India from 1861 to 1936.

Ex Stack's Bowers Galleries (14 January 2022), lot 1369. Reportedly from the collection of a businessman working in Mumbai beginning in the 1940s.
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