1880 Kabul to Kandahar star. Bronze, 62 x 48 mm. MY-129, BBM-85. Plain ring suspension. Choice Extremely Fine.

1880 Kabul to Kandahar star. Bronze, 62 x 48 mm. MY-129, BBM-85. Plain ring suspension. Choice Extremely Fine.

504 PRIVATE T. McADAM 92nd HIGHLANDERS impressed on the reverse. Nice brown color with good contrast, pleasing and undamaged. This is a relic medal made from bronze sourced from the melted guns of the army of Ayub Khan, awarded to those troops who made the march from Kabul to Kandahar in August 1880.

At the Battle of Kandahar, which took place the day the long march ended (September 1, 1880), the 92nd Highlanders fought under Lt. Gen. Sir Herbert Macpherson. Each of the 670 men of the regiment who made the march earned one of these stars. One can only imagine the misery a Scottish Highlander would have endured marching 300 miles across Afghanistan in the heat of August.

Offered with a ribbon of uncertain age, but likely original.

Estimate: $300 - $500.

Provenance: From the Gem Collection.

Earlier from our (Stack's) sale of January 2003, lot 340.

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