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The pair to J Thomas sold yesterday for a hammer price of GBP 2,600. Total GBP 3,349. R 76,110. AUD 6,210. NZD 6,900. CAD 5,730. USD 4,190. EUR 3,830

From City Coins 74, December 2024.

O'Okiep medal, bronze ( S. Reuter)

Described as:

Confirmed on Medal Roll.

The British medal issuing authorities were so determined in ruling through and deleting Reuter’s name on the medal roll provided to them that Brian Kieran, the O’kiep historian and author of the definitive Medal Roll and book “O’kiep” could not decipher his name correctly mistakenly recording him as “600 Pte. Renten, J - Called out for active military duty”. With the assistance of the computer’s magnification button in examining the high definition scan of the original medal roll available online via the Ancestry Web Site it is evident that the name “S. Reuter” is correct. Reuter, a coloured man, was denied a QSA medal by the British. However , he was presented with a bronze medal by the grateful O’kiep Cape Copper Company. Provenance: City Coins Sale 66

The O'okiep medal to S Reuter sold for a hammer price of R 25,000, approximately £ 1,100, ex commission and VAT.

There is another one on ebay.......

Named:

eBay item number:226507309008

ONE OF THE RAREST BOER WAR MEDALS
DEFENCE OF OOKIEP CAPE COPPER COMPANY LTD MEDAL
IMPRESSED TO J.PHILLIPS
HAS BEEN POORLY STORED AND WAS FOUND IN A DAMP GARAGE DRAW. FINISH HAS SUFFERED A LITTLE
NAMING IS BETTER THAN IT LOOKS IN PHOTOS. OFFICIALLY IMPRESSED, NOT TAMPERED WITH BUT LOTS OF NORMAL EDGE KNOCKS
PRICE REFLECTS CONDITION BUT NOT MANY OF THESE AROUND.

Picture courtesy of Noonan's

[ QSA (1) CC ];
O'Okiep Medal (P. Kriel.), additionally engraved at 9 o'clock 'C. J. M.',

In the 1st Namaqualand Border Scouts served a Piet and a Petrus Kriel.

Picture courtesy of Morton and Eden

QSA (0) (242 T. J. Keast. Namqlnd: T.G.), tiny edge nick;
O'okiep Medal (Thos. J. Keast.)

Together with:

British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Pte. C. S. Keast. 3rd S.A.I.);
OSM EII (Frederick Harold Keast) and
St John Ambulance Association bronze membership badge (361906 Reginald Keast),

M&E say 'Thomas J. Keast of the Namaqualand Town Guard is confirmed on the medal roll (‘engaged the enemy at O’okiep’). Imperial Service Medal.: London Gazette: 27 January 1961 ‘Postman, Camborne and Redruth.'