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From the next DNW auction.


Picture courtesy of DNW.

QSA (1) DoM (F. Jacobs. Mafeking Town Gd:).

Private F. Jacobs was slightly wounded at Mafeking on 21 March 1900.

This is the medal to J Morrison Marshalls Horse previously posted here. It has resurfaced and now has only the DOM clasp as indicated on the rolls. I purchased it ignorance of the previous posts and now am having second thoughts. However the clasp looks OK to me now. Do you think it has been replaced with an original or is this the same Dixons copy? Still has the same ribbon.
Paul

Paul
For purpose of comparison, I attach a pic of the DofM single clasp to "A.E.Stewart, Mafeking Town Gd". The lettering on the clasp you show looks OK to me.
Regards
IL.

Thank you. It looks OK to me too but I have never seen a Dixon's copy up close. Does anyone have a picture of one? There is no doubt the medal has been recently altered. The vendor tells me they did not do the modifications.

Paul

I have had a further reply from the vendor as follows

"I have been through our records and see that we purchased the medal from Steve Sewell last year and added the original DoM clasp which came from an erased medal. My records also indicate that the price we sold the medal for was in fact less then the cost of the medal and genuine DoM clasp!
The clasp on the medal is quite genuine and we should have made a note to state that the medal had been corrected, but the paperwork relating to the original purchase and subsequent alteration had been misplaced and **** who catalogued the medal was unaware of the alteration."

This reassures me somewhat as I would have purchased the medal anyway with this information up front. I'm never going to see another Marshall's Horse DOM after all!

I have overcome my temporary panic now! Here is the Morrison clasp with three other single clasp DOMs from my collection. I can't see any variations of note. Now I've extracted them all from the safe I will post full pics and details later.