Orders, Decorations and Medals

Sultan of Zanzibar’s Medal 1896, 2 clasps (in Arabic), Takaungu, Mwele, unnamed as issued, good very fine and scarce £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of British Orders, Decorations and Medals (The Property of a Gentleman).

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After the death of the East African Sheikh of Takaungu in February 1895, a succession dispute ensued between his son and his nephew. In June 1895, a British naval force, with some 160 Zanzibaris, drove the nephew out of Takaungu. He fled to Mwele from where he was again driven out by a naval force and some 150 Zanzibaris.