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16 July 2020

Hammer Price:
£1,500

Pair: Naick Basant Singh, 23rd Sikh Pioneers

Central Africa 1891-98, ring suspension, no clasp (3121 Sepoy Basant Singh 23d Bl. Infy.); Indian Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (3121 Naick Basant Singh 23d Sikh Pioneers) contact marks, otherwise good fine and better (2) £500-£700

Sold with copied medal roll entry confirming service in the expeditions to Mlanje, July-August 1891, led by Captain C. M. MacGuire against the Yao slaver Chimkumbu in the area of the Mlanje Mountains; Makinjira, October-November 1891, led by Commissioner H. H. Johnston and Captain MacGuire against the Yao slaver Makinjira on Lake Nyassa; Kawinga, November 1891, led by Captain MacGuire against Chief Kawinga of the Yaos; and Zarafi, January-February 1892, led by Commissioner H. H. Johnston against Yao Chief Zarafi.