Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Singles
Lot 4575 Session 14 (4.30pm Thursday) Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Singles
Estimate $3,500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $2,800
EGYPT MEDAL 1882-89, undated reverse, - clasp - Suakin 1885. 512, Pte R. Toye, N.S.W. Infy.; also Lord Mayor of Sydney Soudan Medal with decorative replacement suspender, reverse inscribed, 'R.Toye/512. D. Co.'. The first chisel engraved, the second engraved. The first nearly extremely fine, the second good.
Ex Trevor Bushell Taylor Collection.
Private Robert McCallum Toye, waiter, age 21, born at Inverness, Scotland; Enl.03Mar1885; Emb.03Mar1885; RTA 23Jun1885 on SS Arab. Also recorded as Toy.
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