Auction Catalogue

2 March 2005

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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Lot

№ 598

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2 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£65

National Rifle Association, Empire Day Challenge Cup (2) by Elkington / Adams, obv. trophy, ‘Presented by Lt. Col. R. W. Schumacher, Witwatersrand Rifles’; rev. an ancient archer and a rifle volunteer, side by side, dated in field ‘1300, 1500 & 1860’, in exergue, ‘Sit Perpetuum’ (R.S.M. H. Gates (102)), 48mm., silver, in Elkington, London case of issue; another, obv. engraved, ‘1908’ (Lieut. M. D. Williams (86)), 48mm., silver; Bargrave Deane Challenge Cup, by Elkington, London, obv. trophy; rev. as previous (Rfn. C. Ashforth, Rif. Bde. 1921), 48mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1920, good very fine and better (3) £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Shooting medals from the James N. Spencer Collection.

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