Auction Catalogue

13 September 2023

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Lot

№ 518

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13 September 2023

Hammer Price:
£1,900

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896, no clasp (Chaplain. I. Shimmin. S.F.F.) very fine and extremely rare to rank £400-£500

The Reverend Isaac Shimmin, of the Methodist Missionary Society, was the first Methodist missionary to evangelise in Rhodesia. He arrived in Salisbury on 29 September 1891 and served as Chaplain to the Salisbury Field Force.