Auction Catalogue

21 September 2007

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 497

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21 September 2007

Hammer Price:
£430

Three: Regimental Quarter-Master Sergeant J. Wainwright, Thorneycroft’s Mounted Infantry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902
, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (43659 Co. Qr. Mr. Sjt. J. Wainwright, Th’croft’s M.I.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (43659 R.Q.M. Sjt. J. Wainwright, Thorneycroft’s M.I.); Coronation 1902, bronze, the second with possible official correction to number, contact wear, nearly very fine or better and scarce (3) £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Barrett J. Carr Collection of Boer War Medals.

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Recipient also served in the Provisional Transvaal Constabulary and represented Thorneycroft’s Mounted Infantry as a Quarter-Master Sergeant at the Coronation in 1902.