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

№ 926

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21 September 2001

Hammer Price:
£800

Six: Chief Armourer F. R. Binstead, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901 (Arm. Mte., H.M.S. Thrush) surname spelt ‘Brinsted’; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Aro 1901-1902 (340927 Arm. Mate, H.M.S. Thrush) these two with official corrections; 1914-15 Star (340927 Act. Ch. Arm. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Ch. Arm. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (Armr., H.M.S. Lord Nelson) nearly very fine or better (6) £400-500

Only 46 clasps for Aro issued to the Royal Navy, all to Thrush, although a further 29 clasps were issued to the Southern Nigeria Gunboat Jackdaw.