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№ 563

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31 March 2010

Hammer Price:
£800

Pair: Private W. Bryant, Volunteer Company, Bedfordshire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (7772 Pte. W. Bryant, Vol. Co. Bedf. Regt.); Hertford Volunteers’ Tribute Medal for South Africa (William James Bryant, Hertford Volunteer), by Croneen, New Brompton, hallmarks for Birmingham 1901, obverse, busts of Queen Victoria and three of her Generals, and ‘South Africa’, reverse, a winged figure of Victory over a field gun and the surround legend, ‘Victory, Liberty and Peace’, with hook and bar suspension, and matching upper brooch bar for wearing, these inscribed ‘For Special / War Services’, and riband buckle bearing a superimposed bust of King Edward VII with engraved inscription, ‘Court Hertford / No. 3050’, last clasp on the first unofficially riveted, very fine and better (2) £250-300