Auction Catalogue

16 December 2003

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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

Lot

№ 736

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16 December 2003

Hammer Price:
£1,550

Three: Chief Petty Officer B. R. Stephens, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (115781 C-P-O, H.M.S. Terrible); British War Medal (115781 C.P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (P.O. 1st Cl., H.M.S. Cambridge) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine and very rare (3) £600-700

Ex. John Cooper collection, D.N.W. 4 April 2001.

Confirmed on the roll as the only five clasp medal to this ship, no other recipient receiving more than three clasps.