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

№ 391

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26 June 2008

Hammer Price:
£85

Army L.S. & G.C. (2), E.II.R., 2nd issue, New Zealand (32170 Sgt. J. McArthur, RNZAOC); another, E.II.R., 1st issue, New Zealand, rhodium plated, unnamed, extremely fine (2) £70-90

‘In 1984, a batch of Rhodium plated medals was ordered for the New Zealand Defence Department. A small number of these medals were delivered and actually awarded before it was realised that the medals were not of silver manufacture. The medals bore the now obsolete legend .... When the error was realised, further awards of the rhodium plated medals ceased, and those already awarded could be exchanged for the correct silver medals.’ Ref. Orders, Decorations and Medals awarded to New Zealanders, by Oldham and Delahunt.