Auction Catalogue

4 December 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 673

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4 December 2001

Hammer Price:
£1,500

Boer War Tribute Medal, in 9 carat gold and enamels, hallmarks for Birmingham 1901, in the form of a cycle horn with central crest of Derbyshire, below which is a banner inscribed ‘Derby Rovers C.C.’, reverse inscribed ‘To F. A. Pitman on his return from the Boer War’, with double loop suspension, some damage to blue enamel, otherwise very fine and very rare £250-300

This variety is not recorded in Boer War Tribute Medals, by M. G. Hibbard.