World Medals: Bowcher, Frank (British, 1864-1938); b. London, and Spink & Son (London, 1885-present) SOUTH AFRICA, Defence of Mafeking, 1900, a bronze medal, unsigned [by F. Bowcher] for Spink, facing bust of Baden-Powell, rev. Baden-Powell on horseback to right, accompanied by soldiers and a field-gun, 45mm, 42.60g (Hern 106; AM Cat. 44; BHM 3677; BDM I, 256; E 1843a; cf. SJA 109, 1355; cf. DNW 187, 823); together with a bronze miniature of the same medal, 22mm, 7.79g, and Siege of Kimberley, 1899-1900, a base metal locket, 4.27g [3]. First about extremely fine, others fine to very fine £60-£80 Provenance: Bt A.C. Eimer November 2015. Medal only illustrated. The defence of the town of Mafeking, which lasted from 13 October 1899 to 17 May 1900, involved some 2,000 troops, including those raised by Col. Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941) from the Protectorate Regiment, the Bechuanaland Rifles and the Cape Police. With few soldiers, no modern artillery and little risk, the defenders kept as many as 8,000 Boers from deploying to other war fronts in Natal and the Orange Free State. The siege was finally lifted when a flying column of some 2,000 British soldiers, including Canadians and South African volunteers from Kimberley, relieved the town after fighting their way in