3rd Dec, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST
Militaria & Ethnographica
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A Pair of Victorian Campaign Medals, awarded to 4312 PTE. A.(Adam) MAIR. 1/SEA HRS., comprising Queen's Sudan Medal 1896-98 and Khedive's Sudan 1896-1908 with two clasps THE ATBARA and KHARTOUM, together with photocopied National Archives Short Service of Attestation, Statement of Services and Military History Sheet.
4342 Private Adam Mair was born in Glasgow in 1871, he enlisted in the Seaforth Highlanders, October 1892 and served with the Regiment in Egypt and the Sudan, January 1898 to March 1900, and later in South Africa, 2nd March 1900 to 11th September 1902 (entitled to QSA with clasps Cape Colony, Transvaal, and Wittebergen, and KSA); he was discharged 5th October 1904, after 12 years with the Colours.
Sold for £400
Estimated at £300 - £500
Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 3rd Dec, 2021
Militaria and Ethnographica Sales encompass items across diverse areas of collecting, from European and Eastern armour to 18th and 19th century firearms, military uniforms and documents, edged weapons, World War I and World War II ephemera, masonic regalia and medals.
Also included are a vast range of objects created in the early 20th century or earlier by indigenous cultures around the world, from early American civilisations to African tribes and Polynesian island cultures, incorporating religious idols, domestic and ritual objects, figurative sculpture, jewellery and weapons of all descriptions.
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