Lot Archive

Lot

№ 172

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2 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£500

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1877-8-9 (C. May, Ord., H.M.S. Active) one or two edge bruises and polished, good fine and rare £300-350

Only 124 such clasps were awarded to R.N. and R.M. personnel, the vast majority of them to men from H.M.S. Active.