Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 November 2015

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 1136

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26 November 2015

Hammer Price:
£220

‘Ladysmith’ ephemera

A large fragment of a heavy artillery shell, fired into Ladysmith during the Siege, with copper band inscribed, ‘Ladysmith’, the fragment secured to a shaped wooden shield, approx. 35 x 28cm., which bears a brass plaque inscribed, ‘Piece of Long Tom Shell fired into Ladysmith Nov. 2nd 1899 from Umbulwana Hill. Picked up by J. B. Bland’, shield appears to have had at one time bullets secured to the upper corners, these now missing; Contemporary large, 63 x 49cm., original printed poster for the
Liverpool Echo, bold headlined, ‘Ladysmith Relieved’; Contemporary large, approx. 55 x 42cm., ‘“Relief of Ladysmith” The Meeting of Sir Geo. White and Lord Dundonald. “Thank God we kept our flag flying”’, generally in good condition (3) £60-80

Note: a heavy lot.