Auction Catalogue

12 & 13 December 2012

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 110 x

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13 December 2012

Hammer Price:
£310

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896 (Burghr. P. Falk, Gwelo Burghers) minor edge bruising, good very fine £280-320

With several photographs of the recipient and his family and various localities; letters and papers re service with the 1896 Rhodesian Volunteers; letter (damaged and repaired) to accompany the B.S.A. Medal, from Government House, Cape Town, dated 17 June 1899; letter re his appointment as a manager with the Anglo-African Trading Co. Ltd., 14 February 1906; several printed address forms for ‘P. Falk, Gwelo, Fifth Street 209-210 (Southern Rhodesia)’; Rhodesia Pioneers & Early Settkers Society Certificate, recognising Peter Falk as a Rhodesian Pioneer having arrived in Rhodesia in 1892; a typescript: ‘Gwelo Lager’, ‘probably witten by Mrs L. Bagnall with Mr Peter Falk’s help’; together with a large and heavy, 39 x 27.5 x 7cm. ‘Cash Book’, with entries covering the period, June 1895-May 1910, half calf binding worn.