Auction Catalogue

22 June 1999

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Arts Club  40 Dover St  London  W1S 4NP

Lot

№ 594

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22 June 1999

Hammer Price:
£380

Five: Private Joseph Darby, Seaforth Highlanders
India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (4353 Pte., 2nd Bn. Seaforth Highlrs.); Queen’s Sudan 1896 (4353 Pte., 1/Sea. Hrs.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (4353 Pte., 2: Sea. Highrs.); King’s South Africa, 2 clasps (4353 Pte., Seaforth Highrs.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (4353 Pte., 1st Sea. Highrs.) contact marks and edge bruises, otherwise nearly very fine (5) £350-400

Sold with copy service papers which confirm all medals and clasps and note that he also served during the occupation of Crete in 1897.