Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Dundee Tribute Medal 1900 (2) gold, 25mm. dia., 8.75g. (inc. chain) obverse: engraved coat-of-arms of the city; reverse inscribed, ‘Dundee Volunteers / service in / South Africa /with freedom of city / Albert B. Greig / 1900’, no hallmarks, with gold chain for neck wear; another, silver, 22mm. dia., 8.00g. (inc. chain) engraved as above, no hallmarks, with silver chain for neck wear, good very fine, scarce (2) £1500-1800

The above differ from the medal described in Boer War Tribute Medals, by M. G. Hibbard. Medal ‘C.6’ in the publication is described as being in silver only, with a diameter of 37mm., bearing a hallmark and unnamed.

With a copied group photograph of members of the Active Service Section, 3rd Volunteer battalion Black Watch which includes a Private A. Grieg and an extract from the Volunteer Service Company Royal Highlanders roll, listing 7570 Private Albert Grieg who was awarded the Q.S.A. with clasps for ‘Cape Colony’ and ‘Orange Free State’. The recipient is known to have been alive in the 1920’s.