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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 722

Pair: Captain T.J. Warnes, Army Ordnance Department South Africa 1877-79, no clasp (Condr. T.J. Warnes. Ord: Store Dept.); Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Cape Colony (Capt. T.J. Warnes A.O.D.), toned, virtually mint state, with Queen Victoria South Africa 1900 chocolate tin, complete with original contents and a handwritten note by recipient, ´This Queen´s chocolate box a present of one of each being made by Her Majesty to all troops who had served on the 1st January 1900 in the Boer War in South Africa - I was the recipient of this which was intact contents untouched in November 1903, date forgotten when framed. 40 Upper Gray Street, Edinburgh, 20th June 1905, Thomas John Warnes, late Army Ordnance Dept.´ (2) Estimate £ 400-440 Commissary of Ordnance Captain Thomas John Warnes, appointed Honorary Captain Army Ordnance Department, 1896; Commissary of Ordnance, South Africa Station, 1898. Approximately 14 South Africa 1877-78 ´no clasp´ awards to the Ordnance Store Department.

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