Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

New Zealand L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (Sergt. T. White, N.Z.M.R.) officially impressed naming, good very fine and rare £500-£700

Provenance: John Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2008.

Only 18 Edward VII medals issued. Sergeant T. White’s name has not been found in the New Zealand Gazettes for this period. The New Zealand government at this time did not possess an impressing machine so all the period awards of this medal had engraved naming. Whilst this medal is unquestionably a genuine piece, it is speculated that it was named up as a trial or practise piece upon the arrival of a naming machine in New Zealand after the Great War. Another example is known impressed to ‘Corpl. J. Brown, N.Z.M.R.’ whose name also does not appear in the gazettes.

Provenance: John Tamplin Collection, December 2008. See revised footnote