Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Mafeking (Pte. R. Moore, Mafeking Town. Guard.) officially re-impressed naming, brooch-pin affixed to rear of clasp carriage, toned, good very fine £1,000-£1,200

Sold with original envelope cover from ‘Independent Order of Good Templars, Grand Lodge of Central South Africa’, addressed to ‘Mr Rupert Moore, Mafeking, B.B.’, halfpenny green stamp postmarked ‘Johannesburg 11. Aug. 99. 5-30 N.m.’; and accompanied by manuscript family note: ‘His home was in Stourbridge, Worcs. He returned home in a debilitated condition, caught a chill, developed rheumatic fever and died soon after, his wife, my great aunt, never married again, she was about age thirty four when he died.’