Auction Catalogue

15 October 2020

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Lot

№ 487

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15 October 2020

Hammer Price:
£6,000

A rare ‘raised dates’ Queen’s South Africa medal awarded to Private P. E. Simpson, Lord Strathcona’s Horse

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, dated reverse, 5 clasps, Natal, Orange Free State, Belfast, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (350 Pte. P. E. Simpson, Ld. Strathcona’s H:)
unofficial rivets between 3rd and 4th clasps, inverted apostrophe as normal, very fine £5,000-£6,000

Approximately 62 medals with the dated reverse were issued, mostly (58) to men of Lord Strathcona’s Horse.