Auction Catalogue

28 March 2002

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals Including five Special Collections

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

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Lot

№ 672

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28 March 2002

Hammer Price:
£210

Queen Victoria’s Visit to Ireland 1900, medallion, struck in silver, 31,mm, obverse with central portrait of Queen Victoria, inscribed around ‘Visit of H.M. Queen Victoria to Ireland 1900’, reverse with celtic design and inscribed within ribbon ‘To commemorate Irish valour’, good very fine and scarce £80-100

This medallion may well have been struck for presentation to those soldiers back from the fighting in South Africa. It is however, not listed in Boer War Tribute Medals, by M.G. Hibbard.