Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An extremely rare Boer War silver and gold Presentation Belt from the Natal Carbineers to Nursing Sister E. M. Early in recognition of her great services to the men of the Regiment during the Siege of Ladysmith

Silver waist belt clasp, the reverse hallmarked Birmingham 1901 and with maker’s mark ‘T&JB’, applied with gold badge of the Natal Carbineers, hallmarked 9 carat gold, with belt of eleven silver roundels linked by silver chains, two roundels inscribed, ‘Presented by the Natal Carbineers to Nurse E. M. Early, in recognition of her great services to the men of the Regiment’, ‘During the Siege Of Ladysmith Nov. 2, 1899 to Feb. 28, 1900’, the remaining nine roundels depicting Maritzburg Town Hall, a covered Ambulance Wagon, an Army Signaller with Observation Balloon in the distance, a Nursing Sister, the Arms of the Colony of Natal, a Mounted Trooper, two Indian bearers with dhoolie, an Artillery Gun, and Artillery Shells, the reverse of each roundel with silver mark and date letter for 1901, a little polished, otherwise very fine and extremely rare £800-1200