GB Historical Medals
Lot 1788 Session 6 (9.30am Wednesday) GB Historical Medals
Estimate $2,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $2,500
QUEEN VICTORIA, Siege of Mafeking, in gold (45mm, 18 carat 18CT stamped on edge, 56 grams) F. Bowcher and Spink & Son Ltd. (not listed in BHM, reverse is as the obv of 3677). Rim bruise, otherwise nearly FDC and excessively rare if not unique.
Ex late Ken Johnson (of Cape Town) Collection. [This medal is said to have been given to Barden- Powell by the Queen. It then passed to colonel Sir Frank Johnson, uncle of Ken Johnson. The Prime Minister advised Queen Victoria that it was inapproprate to issue a medal with her effigy combined with that of 'her boy- friend'.
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