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Auction: 25001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 271

One Star Diamond Contingent

The unit was drawn from diamond miners of the Transvaal and Griqualand Districts.

169 Medals were awarded to the One Star Diamond Contingent, all bar one of them with the clasp '1878'.

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1878 (Lieut. J. P. Denys. One Star Diamd. Contgt.), rank corrected, very fine

Purchased April 2003.

Jacob Pieter Denys was engaged against the Pokwane & Griquas in 1878 and was latterly made a Lieutenant.

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Estimate
£500 to £700

Starting price
£400