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Sold on 31 March 2010

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A Choice Collection of Medals and Other Items Relating to The Defence of Kimberley

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№ 522

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31 March 2010

Hammer Price:
£270

Pair: Private A. McAdam, Kimberley Town Guard, late Argyll Artillery Volunteers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (Pte. A. McAdam, Kimberley Town Gd.); Argyll Artillery prize medal, obverse, engraved ‘8th Argyll Artillery, Innellan Section’, reverse, engraved ‘Won by Gunr. A. McAdam, 1877’, within raised decorated borders, 40mm., integral loop and ring suspension, good very fine or better (2)
£250-300

Sold with an original Beaconsfield, Wesselton and Kimberley ‘Meat Supply Ticket’ (No. 141), for six and half rations, signed by the issuer, ‘J. Gould’, and inscribed in margin ‘McAdam’, together with copied medal roll verification.