Auction Catalogue

17 July 2024

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Lot

№ 173

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17 July 2024

Hammer Price:
£320

Pair: Corporal W. O. Black, Kimberley Town Guard

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (Corpl: W. O. Black. Kimberley Town Gd:); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘b’, unnamed, with copy integral top brooch bar, generally good very fine (2) £300-£400

Glendining’s, March 1975; Julian Johnson Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, May 2017.

W. O. Black served in A Section, 2 Company, Kimberley Town Guard throughout the siege under the command of Lieutenant E. J. Beddome.