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DUKE OF CONNAUGHT

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:100.00 CAD Estimated At:200.00 - 250.00 CAD
DUKE OF CONNAUGHT
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This item SOLD at 2021 Aug 14 @ 20:35UTC-4 : AST/EDT

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1910 Silvered Bronze 38mm 21.36 grams Medal by William James Dingley, Birmingham For Union of South Africa and the Opening of the First Parliament Laidlaw 0469
Obverse:    Bareheaded bust of the Duke in uniform, half left. Signed: “W . J . D .” on the truncation.  On a raised roughened band the legend above: “FIRST UNION PARLIAMENT” and below between stops: “OPENED BY H.R.H. DUKE OF CONNAUGHT”. Reverse:     A crowned shield with the Royal coat of arms surrounded by four shields of the territories forming the union each named on a ribbon below.  Top left: “CAPE COLONY”, top right: “NATAL”, bottom left: “TRANSVAAL”, bottom right: “ORANGE FREE STATE”. Below that on a ribbon: “DIEU ET MON DROIT”. On a raised roughened band the legend: “TO COMMEMORATE THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA” and on a cartouche below between quotes: “TO MINGLE FRIENDSHIP / FAR, IS MINGLING BLOODS”. Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn was the seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He served as the Governor General of Canada and was the only British prince to do so. He had a long association with Canada. He was given on 1 October 1869 the title Chief of the Six Nations by the Iroquois of the Grand River Reserve in Ontario and the name Kavakoudge (meaning the sun flying from east to west under the guidance of the Great Spirit), enabling him to sit in the tribe's councils and vote on matters of tribe governance. As he became the 51st chief on the council, his appointment broke the centuries-old tradition that there should only be 50 chiefs of the Six Nations. He toured in Canada in 1870 and saw action in the Fenian Raids at Battle of Eccles Hill. In 1911, he was appointed as Governor General of Canada.