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Auction: 26001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 207

(x) Sold by Order of a Direct Descendant

The mounted group of three miniature dress medals worn by Chaplain G. Smith, Army Chaplains' Department, a central figure during the Defence of Rorke's Drift, 22-23 January 1879, who famously first sighted the Zulu hordes descending on that place

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879; Egypt & Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 3 clasps, Suakin 1884, El-Teb, The Nile 1884-85; Khedive's Star 1882, mounted as worn, very fine, with an old Army & Navy Co-operative Society envelope, in which they have been stored (3)

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Estimate
£3,000 to £5,000

Starting price
£2500