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№ 404

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14 September 2022

Hammer Price:
£550

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister Mrs Rising) officially re-impressed naming, nearly very fine £260-£300

Upfill-Brown Collection, Buckland Dix & Wood, December 1991; Dix Noonan Webb, December 2006.

Mrs Rising was a Nursing Sister at Mafeking during the period of the defence. Her husband, A. C. Rising, was in the Mafeking Town Guard and received the medal with one clasp for the Defence of Mafeking.