Auction Catalogue

18 May 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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The Allan and Janet Woodliffe Collection of Medals Relating to the Reconquest and Pacification of the Sudan

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 45

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18 May 2011

Hammer Price:
£1,000

Gordon of Khartoum, a rare white parian bisque porcelain memorial bust of Gordon, approx. 195mm high, the back impressed 'Copyright as Act directs, W. H. GOSS, Stoke-on-Trent, JANUARY 1885’, excellent quality and condition
£300-350

Gordon is represented in his uniform of Governor-General of the Sudan. There is a similar example in the Victoria and Albert museum collection.