Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Superintendent Arthur Bean, Postal Department, who died in Tibet

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Samana 1891 (Supdt. A. Bean Postal Deptt.); India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Samana 1897, Tirah 1897-98 (Supdt. Mr. Arthur Bean Postl. Deptt.); Tibet 1903-04, no clasp (Supdt. A. Bean Postal Deptt.) erasure before name on last, otherwise nearly extremely fine and very rare (3)
£800-1000

Superintendent Arthur Bean died of heart failure in Tibet on 3 March 1904. Sold with photocopied photographs of officers, including Bean, at Dera Ismail Khan 1883-84, and of Bean’s wedding party in 1883.