Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 June 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 108

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26 June 2008

Hammer Price:
£520

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896, 1 clasp, Mashonaland 1897 (7 Troopr. A. F. Wyper, B.S.A.P.), edge bruising, otherwise extremely fine £400-450

Arthur Finlay Wyper, a confirmed recipient of the above Medal and clasp, appears to have hailed from Glasgow. He was also awarded the Queen’s South Africa Medal for his services as a Trooper in the Southern Rhodesia Volunteers in the “Relief of Mafeking” and “Rhodesia” operations.