Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Gordon’s Star for the Siege of Khartoum 1884, silver-gilt, fitted with later wire loop for suspension, lacking point of top ray, gilding a little weak in places but generally very fine and very rare £1200-1500

Approximately 40 silver-gilt stars were issued to officers of the rank Bimbasha and above, and to various merchants, notables and Government civilian employees.

In a letter of July 1884 to Sir Evelyn Baring, Gordon wrote “We have made a decoration, with three degrees, silver-gilt, silver and pewter, with an inscription ‘Siege of Khartoum’ and with a grenade in the centre.”