The Upfill-Brown Collection

BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY MEDAL 1890-97, reverse Matabeleland 1893 (Sister Octavia), extremely fine and rare

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The AA Upfill-Brown Collection.

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Medals for Matabeleland were issued to the Reverend Mother Jacoba and the eight Nursing Nuns under her. Of these nine medals, all but two are accounted for in the Dominican convents at Johannesburg and King William's Town. The medal to Sister Octavia is the only one known in a private collection, the whereabouts of that to Sister Mechtild remain a mystery.