Auction Catalogue

5 April 2006

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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

Lot

№ 473

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5 April 2006

Hammer Price:
£260

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Lieut. A. Taylor, C. R. Shpshtrs.) unit officially corrected, minor edge bruising, good very fine (7) £160-200

Lieutenant A. Taylor, Cape Railway Sharpshooters, appointed 23 February 1901; resigned 30 June 1902. Sold with some copied research.

Sold with two Kimberley Rifles Barnato Trophy Medals, 22mm., silver, one inscribed, ‘1891 Sergt. A. Taylor’, the other ‘1892 Col. Sergt. A. Taylor’; a medal, 23mm., silver, engraved, ‘Victoria Rifles, A Compy. Challenge Cup; Sergt. Taylor, 85 Points, July 90’; badges (3) - ‘Umzintzani’ on a ‘Zulu shield’, bronze; ‘Order of the Sons of Temperance’, enamelled; United Services Association, enamelled; South Africa Republic commemorative, bronze.