Lot 185
Mafeking – The Man who Signed The Siege Note
"Behind The Wire" - Medal and Militaria Sale | M25001
Auction: 17 September 2025 at 14:00 BST
Description
A Small Silver Cross Shaped Medallion containing a photograph of Lord Baden-Powell, with a hand written note saying “Cape of Good Hope: Mafeking Siege 1899 Original Full Face Miniature Photograph of Lord Rober Baden-Powell in Dress of Army Scout in small Hallmarked Silver Mount. Photograph Taken in England and carried by Baden Powel to Mafeking. During the Siege of March/May 1900 he gave it to a young Officer, Captain Greener to copy for a slightly amended version of the portrait of the famous Prussiate Baden-Powell 3d Provisional. There is a slight Bullet scar on reverse of silver mount. This was found in Greener papers.”
Inside Mafeking - the Diary of Captain Herbert Greener - https://www.tokenpublishing.com/shop/product/7663/18
Subtitled "A monument to British Pluck" this book takes a fascinating look at the Siege of Mafeking during the second Boer War - from the viewpoint of someone who was actually there. Captain Herbert Greener was the Chief Paymaster in Mafeking and it is his signature that appears on the famous siege notes.
Herbert Greener, BSA Police is on the same Roll as Baden-Powell for Both QSA and KSA, He is Entitled to a QSA with 3 clasps, Defence of Mafeking, Orange Free State and Transvaal, KSA South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, two copy photographs - Hallmarks indecipherable but tested and is Silver
