Auction Catalogue

21 September 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 147

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21 September 2001

Hammer Price:
£410

General Gordon’s Star for the Seige of Khartoum 1884, pewter, with an old paper label attached to reverse centre, inscribed in ink ‘Order struck by Genl. Gordon when besieged in Khartoum 1883 & 1884’, very fine £300-350

Ex. Daniel Fearon Collection, bought Baldwin, 1962; Exhibited at British Museum 1963; and National Portrait Gallery 1985.

The medal sold in this lot was illustrated in
The Illustrated London News, 13 July 1963, in an article entitled ‘Medallions With a History From a Young Man’s Collection.’