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The National commemorative medal, 1899-1900
Title
The National commemorative medal, 1899-1900.
Publication
[England?] : [Spink & Son], [1900]
Physical Description
1 medal ; 3 x 4 cm
Medium
bronze
Local Notes
BEIN Richards Kipling 2872: From the David Alan Richards Collection of Rudyard Kipling. Housed in case with two other medals with spine title: "The Absent-Minded Beggar. Transvaal War National Commemorative Medals, 1900".
Notes
Gilt-bronze medal with patriotic enamelled suspender.
Full figure of a British soldier with rifle on the obverse, a flag pole with the Union flag wrapped around an ear of wheat entwined with the national flowers of England on the reverse. The proceeds from the sale of this medal went to the Daily Mail for the Kipling Poem War Fund.
Variant and related titles
This medal commemorates the magnificent response of Britain's sons to the Empire's call to arms, Transvaal War 1899-1900.
Format
Other
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 10, 2018
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Medals.
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