Auction Catalogue

28 February & 1 March 2018

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 1000

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1 March 2018

Hammer Price:
£2,000

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Juba River 1893 (H. Singer, Ord., H.M.S. Blanche.) suspension claw possibly re-fixed, contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine and rare £2000-2600

Only 45 clasps issued for Juba River 1893, all to H.M.S. Blanche, including one award to a Lieutenant in the Italian Navy, one African interpreter and four seedies, the names of all recipients being recorded in Lieutenant P. Vaughan Lewes’ despatch published in the London Gazette of 12 December 1893.