Description
measuring 90 mm (w) x 138 mm mm (h)
Windsor Castle Court Dress
on its full-length sash)
Civil Division (in silver gilt with red and white enamels
on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon pinned with Infanterie-Regiment 53 clasp
United Kingdom. A South Africa Medal to Pte. Allen, O.B.A.S.C Republic of measuring 90 mm (w) xInstituted in 1880. In silver, the obverse bearing the head of Queen Victoria facing left inscribed VICTORIA REGINA around the perimeter, the reverse bearing a crouching lion on a plinth in front of a bush inscribed "SOUTH AFRICA'' around the top perimeter, rim officially engraved 1210 PTE J. ALLEN O. B. A. S. C., with tailors copy clasp 1879, suspension slightly bent, minor marks, two notable edge bruises near the N of ALLEN, in near extremely fine