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**SOLD** BRITISH ARMY 1884 KHEDIVE’S STAR MEDAL – EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN
**SOLD** Offered is an original 1884 Khedive’s Star. 47 mm wide five-pointed dark toned bronze star with loop and laurel-decorated ribbon bar bearing a star and crescent; the face with a circular central medallion bearing a sphinx, three pyramids beyond, within a ring inscribed ‘EGYPT 1884’ above, the same dates in Arabic numerals and ‘Khedive of Egypt’ in Arabic script below; the reverse with a circular central medallion bearing the crowned cipher of Khedive Tewfik; on original court mounted ribbon. The Star was instituted in 1882 and awarded to Army and Navy personnel entitled to the Egypt medal for their...
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Offered is an original 1884 Khedive's Star. 47 mm wide five-pointed dark toned bronze star with loop and laurel-decorated ribbon bar bearing a star and crescent; the face with a circular central medallion bearing a sphinx, three pyramids beyond, within a ring inscribed ‘EGYPT 1884’ above, the same dates in Arabic numerals and ‘Khedive of Egypt’ in Arabic script below; the reverse with a circular central medallion bearing the crowned cipher of Khedive Tewfik; on original court mounted ribbon.
The Star was instituted in 1882 and awarded to Army and Navy personnel entitled to the Egypt medal for their assistance in reasserting the control of Tewfik Pasha over Egypt, albeit under French and British supervision.
