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Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen.....

Just thought I would show my latest find.....

The Blackpool Boer War Tribute Medal

Hibbard: Number A5 (14) Page 19

Obverse: PRESENTED BY MAYOR AND TOWNSPEOPLE OF BLACKPOOL

Reverse: TO
TROOPER R. CARTER
D.L.O.I.Y.
SOUTH AFRICAN WAR
1899 - 1901

Rarity Table: R2 (5 to 6 Known)

Mike

Excellent ! Well done, Mike ! And thank you for posting your latest find!

Cheers,

Mark

Mike,

Your Tribute Medal for Blackpool is a very nice find, this is the first one I have ever seen, other than examples shown in books. Are they difficult to come across as you also say this is the first you have seen.

Thanks for sharing.

James.

There is a Blackpool Tribute Medal in the next Noonan's sale:

www.angloboerwar.com/forum/5-medals-and-...gade?start=132#92511

Details of the medal are here: www.angloboerwar.com/medals-and-awards/2...als/b/3961-blackpool

Picture courtesy of Noonan's

Reverse engraved ‘To Private F. Crook, St. John Ambulance Brigade Blackpool Division South African War 1899 1901’,

Part of the group to Orderly Crook ( www.angloboerwar.com/forum/5-medals-and-...gade?start=204#98583 )

Details of this tribute medal: www.angloboerwar.com/medals-and-awards/2...als/b/3961-blackpool

Medal to 1474 Orderly Henry S. HALL, St John Ambulance Brigade, coming up at Noonan's on 9 April 2025.

This is the example illustrated in Hibbard and Hern.

Remarkably, this is the fourth such medal to be offered by Noonan's in as many months.




https://www.noonans.co.uk/auctions/calendar/792/catalogue/987456/

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