Auction Catalogue

8 December 2016

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 715

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8 December 2016

Hammer Price:
£240

Ethiopia, Empire, Military Merit Medal for the Order of St. George (2), bronze, one with original riband; Patriot’s Medal 1943 (2), bronze, one gilded; Star of Victory Medal 1941 (3), silver; Eritrean Medal, 2nd Class, silver; Commemorative Medal for the Opening of the Djibouti to Addis Ababa Railway 1903, bronze; together with a British Abyssinia Medal 1867, reverse re-engraved ‘1154 Sergt. H. 26th. Regt.’, suspension re-affixed; an Italian East Africa Medal 1936; and a U.N. Medal, with United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea riband, generally nearly very fine and better (lot) £180-220

Sold together with various cap badges, cloth unit insignia, two sets of ‘the National Coinage of Ethiopia’ 1977, and a gold and black enamel brooch, 35mm, with a gold lion of Judea holding the flag of Ethiopia in the centre, purporting to be the ‘Order of the Lion of Judea’ 1st Class, awarded to a British military diplomat during or just after World War II by the Emperor.