CITY OF LONDON IMPERIAL VOLUNTEERS FOR SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL 1899-1900, bronze, by Sir George Frampton, obverse, a Soldier of the City of London Volunteers is Proclaimed by a Fanfare and Welcomed by Londinia, with oak leaves and scrolls bearing the Regiment's South African engagements around, and 'Pro Patria Regina et Vrbe' in exergue, reverse, the Union and C.I.V. Flags above a Hill, with a pair of cannon in the foreground and a sunburst behind, and lower inscription, 'The City of London Volunteers, Raised and Equipped for the War in South Africa by the Citizens of London, Formed December 1899, Returned to London October 1900', the edge officially engraved, 'The Ancient & Hon. Artillery Company of Boston', 76mm., extremely fine

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CITY OF LONDON IMPERIAL VOLUNTEERS FOR SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL 1899-1900, bronze, by Sir George Frampton, obverse, a Soldier of the City of London Volunteers is Proclaimed by a Fanfare and Welcomed by Londinia, with oak leaves and scrolls bearing the Regiment's South African engagements around, and 'Pro Patria Regina et Vrbe' in exergue, reverse, the Union and C.I.V. Flags above a Hill, with a pair of cannon in the foreground and a sunburst behind, and lower inscription, 'The City of London Volunteers, Raised and Equipped for the War in South Africa by the Citizens of London, Formed December 1899, Returned to London October 1900', the edge officially engraved, 'The Ancient & Hon. Artillery Company of Boston', 76mm., extremely fine

Lot Essay

Reference: Hibbard A15.

Examples of this Medal are rarely found named, not least to such an august and celebrated Institution.