Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

China 1900, no clasp (M. Pope, A.B., Victoria Nav. Cont.) official correction to ‘Victoria’; together with Victorian Naval Contingent Association gold and enamel medal, stamped 9 carat, the reverse engraved ‘Presented to M. Pope, President 1932-1937’; and ‘V.C.C.A.’ President’s badge, not hallmarked but probably 9 carat gold, unnamed, enamel chipped on the second, otherwise good very fine and scarce (3) £1400-1800

Sold with a copy of Deeds not Words, by Wilson P. Evans, Melbourne 1971, a history of the Victorian Navy, including a chapter on the services of the Victorian Naval Contingent in China and mention of the China Contingent Association.