Auction Catalogue

27 June 2007

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 647

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27 June 2007

Hammer Price:
£1,900

Three: Private H. Garbett, Shropshire Light Infantry

Hong Kong Plague 1894 (Private, S.L.I.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (3271 Pte., 2nd Shropshire Lt. Infy.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (3271 Pte., Shrops. L.I.); mounted together with an Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Henry Jeffreys), mounted as worn; together with a Boer War Chocolate Tin 1900, empty, medals with minor contact marks, very fine and better (5) £1200-1400

Sold with two paper cuttings; one, an obituary of a Mr Henry William Jeffreys makes reference to his service in Hong Kong at the time of the plague.