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Was the particular woman, featured upon the poster, pretty?

djb wrote: I remember a poster being available when I was at university entitled 'Decisions, decisions, decisions' showing a picture of a woman, a sports car and a bottle of wine (looking back it was a very sexist poster). I was thinking we should replace those images with three QSAs

It was a great two days, but, regarding attendance, I think that the only way to be absolutely sure if you want a particular lot , is to actually be in the saleroom on the day in question, failing that, I prefer the telephone rather than the internet, although, the latter has not failed me yet, however, there is always the chance that it might.

djb wrote: That does sound like a great day.

It would be interesting to see how attending in person and bidding online affects people's bids.

Frank, yes to your first question.

I am not sure what I would do if the internet disconnected during online bidding. It has never happened so far thankfully.

There was a great selection of QSAs to scouts at Spink today:

621. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (801 Sjt. A. Turner. Border Scouts.) £130
622. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (429 Corpl: A. Scott. Canadian Scouts) £240
623. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (409 Tpr: E. M. Finlayson. Colonial Scouts.). Eligible for RoL. £260
624. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (69 Tpr: R. J. Webber. Dennison’s Scouts.) £120
625. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Wepener, Transvaal, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (Lieut: A. E. Judd. Driscoll’s Scts.) £650
626. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (6 Pte. N. W. Kruger. Elliot B.S.) £160
627. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Belfast, South Africa 1901 (Tpr. J. Roux. French’s Scts.) £110
628. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (15 Tpr. A. W. Fincham. Hannay’s Scouts.) £140
629. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (6027 Cpl. W. K. De Souza. I.Y. Scouts) £120
630. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (111 Tpr: R. Carmichael. Kitchener’s F.S.) £150
631. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (8895 Pte. J. Taylor. Lovat’s Scouts) £150
632. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Transvaal (265 Tpr: D. Flynn. Menne’s Scouts) £160
633. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Scout W. A. Robinson. Montmorency’s Scouts.) £260
634. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (329 Pte. W. C. Francks. Namqlnd B.S.) £140
635. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (Serjt: A. Vimpany. Natal Guides.) £270
636. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Orange Free State (239 Tpr: J. P. Hurley. Naylan’s O. R. Scouts.) £290
637. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (97 Tptr. F. V. W. Reid. O.R. Scouts.) £150
638. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (17 Tpr: M. E. Sharpley. Rundle’s Scouts.) £450
639. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Paardeberg, Driefontein (14 Tpr. W. B. Burrow. Tucker’s Scouts.) £260

I couldn't slide the "bid" function on my mobile phone fast enough so lost out on quite a number of what would have been speculative lots.

I did secure the ones I wanted though - the Maritzburg Ambulance Corps to Cope and the NNV to Marillier. What was gratifying was that a DoL NNV (like the one I won) sold on bid or buy recently in excess of R13 000 (GBP 740) - I was the under bidder so I was chuffed to get this one for GBP 350.

Others I bought which I thought were a steal were:

Lot 464 - Burghersdorp QSA with BWM (sole entitlement) to Wood
Lot 603 - Rosmead QSA to Meaker
Lot 609 - Tarkastad QSA to Swartz - a Jewish recipient.
Lot 640 - Ashburner's LH to Harris (POW)
Lot 672 - Durban LI to Lt. Hood (which if I remember sold on City Coins for a hefty sum a while ago)
Lot 676 - East Griqualand FF to Lt Webster

And the aforementioned - All said a pretty good day but prices seemed to suffer from auction fatigue.

Rory

Rory,

As you say, there were many wonderful items on offer yesterday and perhaps the number of South African unit QSA sold this year did have an effect on the prices, in a positive way for collectors.

I also bid for the Maritzburg Ambulance Corps as that is a lovely QSA.

Bidding in the UK, I had only one blip in using the Spink site. I was bidding for one of the Rifle Association QSAs and when the system 'returned' the bidding had ended - agh!