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28 February & 1 March 2018

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Lot

№ 493

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28 February 2018

Estimate: £600–£800

A People’s Republic of China group of seven attributed to Major-General Yang Gue Tueng, Communist Army

China, People’s Republic,
Order of August 1st, Star, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘05907’, with pin-back suspension and riband bar; Order of Independence and Freedom, Star, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘10718’, with pin-back suspension and riband bar, in damaged case of issue; Order of Liberation, Star, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘43336’, with pin-back suspension and riband bar; Military Medal, bronze and enamel, reverse officially dated ‘1954.2.17’, with riband suspension; Liberation of North China Campaign Medal 1950, bronze and enamel, with riband suspension; Liberation of Central and Southern China Campaign Medal 1950, silvered and enamel, with pin-back suspension; Friendship with the Soviet Union Badge, bronze and enamel, with pin-back suspension, enamel damage in places, especially to last, nearly very fine or better, scarce (7) £600-800

Provenance: Sotheby’s, December 1990.

Yang Gue Tueng was born in 1905. He joined the Workers and Farmers Army in 1929, and the Chinese Communist Party in 1932, and was appointed Quartermaster of the Red 25th Army. During the War against the Japanese he acted as Commander of Supplies in Central China, and during the Communist take-over of China was Vice Minister of Supply, Central China. He was promoted to Major-General in 1955, and died in 1982.

Sold together with a faded photographic image of the recipient.