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This sold today with a hammer price of �970 at Wallis & Wallis, following their successful David Smith Collection extravaganza.
An 1879 period Zulu regimental war shield umbhumbuluzo, 39� x 21�, black hair with white spot, mounted with two antelope horns (stick missing), bearing an old label on the back stating �Hitch Chiswick�. Some discoloration otherwise GC. Plate 10
Note: Sold with research suggesting a link to Frederick Hitch, who, as a member of B Company, 2/24th, was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the Battle of Rorke�s Drift, 22 January 1879. Hitch later lived in Chiswick, on his death in 1913 he was buried in Chiswick Old Cemetery.

http://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/wallis-and-wallis/catalogue-I'd-2895489/lot-21385271

Shields are not my thing, but I suspect that the price is perhaps a few hundred pounds north of an "ordinary" shield for the period. But if the buyer can provide it ever really was owned by Hitch VC, well..........

Peter
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