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26 July 2023

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№ 331

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26 July 2023

Hammer Price:
£240

Princess of Wales’s Private Military Hospital, The Gables Souvenir Medallion, by Warrington & Co., London, 57mm, silver-plated white metal, the obverse featuring the bust of the Princess of Wales, with her hospital ship off the South African coast and ‘Transvaal War 1899-1900’ in the fields to left and right, with the circumscription, ‘Souvenir of the Princess of Wales’ Private Military Hospital. The Gables, Surbiton’; the reverse featuring the front of the Gables, with ‘For Sick & Wounded from S. Africa’ in the exergue, with the circumscription, ‘Maintained by Mr & Mrs Alfred Cooper as an adjunct to H.R.H’s. Hospital Ship’, in fitted presentation case, the lid with gilt inscription below the Prince of Wales’s feathers, minor edge nicks, otherwise extremely fine £240-£280