Orders, Decorations and Medals

General Gordon’s Star for the Siege of Khartoum 1884, silver-gilt, fitted with later loop for suspension gilding a little weak in places but generally very fine and very rare £600-800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The collection of Medals formed by the Late Clive Nowell.

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Approximately 40 silver-gilt stars were issued to officers of the rank Bimbasha and above, and to various merchants, notables and Government civilian employees.

In a letter of July 1884 to Sir Evelyn Baring, Gordon wrote “We have made a decoration, with three degrees, silver-gilt, silver and pewter, with an inscription ‘Siege of Khartoum’ and with a grenade in the centre.”