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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 2:15 pm

This might interest the lottery winners...
http://www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk/Lot/?Sale=SV200411&Lot=840

There are also some other near contemporary "South Africa" medals in the same auction.

G

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:21 pm

Thanks for this. The estimate is on the light side. The last 1/24th medal was sold last month by a dealer for �7,200. This has a more detailed story attached and is potentially worth more.

Peter

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:38 pm

I digress, but it's also interesting to note the reference in the catalogue notes to the small number of Cpls present. Adding in the company officers and serjeants still provides a fairly slender chain of command and one very vulnerable to casualties within it.

G

Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 2:28 pm

Richardson's medal hammered at �7,800.

South Africa Medal, 1877-1879, 1 clasp 1877-8-9 (1736 Corpl H. Richardson. 1/24th Foot.), naming engraved in slanting capitals. Very fine.

Corporal (Pioneer) Henry Richardson, one of 15 corporals of the 416 men of the 1/24th Foot killed at Isandhlwana on 22nd January 1879, had had a chequered military career. Promoted to Corporal in December 1871 he was reduced to Private in July 1873. He re-joined the Regiment "from desertion" in February 1877 and had regained the rank of Corporal within a month. After Isandhlwana, a published statement by a survivor, one Private J Bickley, shows that Richardson had found a horse to flee the slaughter, but fell and, because of wounds in his arm, he was unable to re-mount and was last seen lying on the ground.

http://www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk/Lot/?Sale=SV200411&Lot=840

Peter