Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The O.B.E. breast badge attributed to P. D. Robeson, Esq., a British equestrian Show Jumper and twice Olympic medallist

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt, in Royal Mint case of issue, extremely fine £100-£140

O.B.E. London Gazette 15 June 1985:
‘For services to Show Jumping.’

Peter David Robeson (1929-2018) was a British Show Jumper and twice Olympic medallist. He won bronze in the team show jumping event at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics (although for quarantine reasons the equestrian events were held in Stockholm, Sweden), and a further bronze medal in the individual show jumping at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. He was awarded the O.B.E. for services to show jumping in 1985.

Sold with the original Bestowal Document for the O.B.E., in Central Chancery envelope, addressed to ‘P. D. Robeson, Esq., O.B.E., Fences Farm, Tyringham, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire’; together with a copy of the 1970 Statutes of the Order, and various Central Chancery enclosures.