Lot Archive

Lot

№ 304

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2 April 2003

Hammer Price:
£80

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (869 Sergt. W. J. Allen, 58th Foot) largely re-engraved naming, bent and slack suspension, about very fine £40-60

No man with these initials and name appears to be on the published roll of the 58th Foot, although there is an ‘1879’ clasp entitlement to a 29B / 869 Private H. Harvey.