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General White
Ref: Hern 498.
Coloured tin badge pin (black, blue, white and red). 21.56 mm diam., 1.56 grams.

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Orange Free State Flag
Not illustrated in Hern’s Handbook.
Coloured tin badge pin (black, orange, white and blue). 21.56 mm diam., 1.56 grams.

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Absent Minded Beggar, 1900
Ref: AM 26; Hern 68; Laid 0043a.
Silver gilt. Fitted with loop.45.21 mm dia., 60.06 grams.
Artist: Spink & Son. (Canton-Woodville)

Sold in aid of the Daily Mail Kipling War Fund for the assistance of widows and orphans of British soldiers. The popular “jingle” was recited daily at the Palace Theatre for the benefit of the Daily Mail War fund by Lady Tree and raised £70 000 in fourteen weeks.

Sold for £11-10-00 in 18ct gold, 12/6d for silver and 3/- in bronze.

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Absent Minded Beggar, 1900
Ref: AM 27; Hern 70; Laidlaw 0043b.
Silver gilt. Fitted with loop. 22.39 mm dia., 5.32 grams.
Artist: Spink & Son. (Canton-Woodville)

These smaller examples were sold for £1-0-00 in 15ct gold, 2/6- for silver and 2/6d for bronze gilt.

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A Souvenir Victorian Halfpenny. 189
A remodelled Victorian halfpenny coin.
Gilt over copper. Fitted with loop. 25.42 mm diam., 5.03 grams.

The reverse skimmed and engraved with the well-known image and the legend:“A Gentleman in Khaki”

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British Flag -Welcome Home Boys 1900
Coloured tin badge pin (black, blue, white and red). 21.70 mm diam., 1.58 grams.
The cellulose covering is somewhat cracked.