Baldwin & Sons
Auction 90 24 September 2014
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Turkey, Ottoman Empire / Italy, The Italian-Turkish War, small Bronze Memorial Medal to the fallen at Tripoli, 1911, Italian soldier stands over fallen Turk, rev memorial inscribed AI CADUTI NELLA TRIPOLITANIA 1911, 26mm (cf Baldwin's Auction 87, lot 1892). Softly modelled, about extremely fine.
In the Italian-Turkish War, Italy defeated Turkey and took the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean and Tripoli / Libya in North Africa. From then all of North Africa was in European hands, and the European powers had completed the partition of Africa with only Ethiopia and Liberia remaining independent.
Estimate: £100-150
In the Italian-Turkish War, Italy defeated Turkey and took the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean and Tripoli / Libya in North Africa. From then all of North Africa was in European hands, and the European powers had completed the partition of Africa with only Ethiopia and Liberia remaining independent.
Estimate: £100-150