Rhodesia: Thomas Baines Centenary: (c) Chapman's Victoria Falls Expedition (1861-1864) |
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| Form: | Circular | ||||||||||||
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| By: | Trevor Wood / Matthews Manufacturing Co. | ||||||||||||
| Date: | 1975 | ||||||||||||
| Ref: |
AM2: 558-561; Laidlaw: 0736c; |
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| Edge: |
Plain. Stamped with the issue number. This silver medal stamped: "3". This bronze medal stamped: "621". |
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| Obverse: |
On the right, bareheaded, bearded bust of Baines, front and slightly left, against an African background with a Baobab tree and an ostrich to the left. Signed: “TW” on the right. Legend above: “DAMARA LAND” and below: “THOMAS BAINES”. |
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| Reverse: |
An African canoe on a river travelling left; one native in front and one at back with poles; two Europeans with hats seated in the middle. Legend above: “1861 VICTORIA FALLS EXPEDITION 1864”, and below: “ZANJUEELAH”. From a sketch by Baines entitled: "Zanjueelah, the Boatman of the Rapids". |
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| Notes: |
The medals come packed in a special folder containing, in addition, South African and Rhodesian first-day cover postage stamps and a booklet on Baines by Louis W. Bolze. The folder is inside a cardboard box lettered: "THOMAS BAINES CENTENARY 1875-1975". An accompanying amended certificate states that the medals were struck both in Rhodesia and South Africa as follows: In Rhodesia (available through Books of Rhodesia): Sterling silver 100 sets numbered 1 -100 Bronze 700 sets numbered 351-1050 In South Africa (available through Africana Book Society): Sterling silver 250 sets numbered 101-350 Gold (18ct) 50 sets numbered 1-50 Thomas Baines (1820 – 1875) was an English artist and explorer of colonial southern Africa and Australia. He first arrived in South Africa in 1842. In 1858 he accompanied David Livingstone along the Zambezi, and was one of the first white men to view Victoria Falls. In 1869 he led one of the first gold prospecting expeditions to Mashonaland in what later became Rhodesia. In 1870 he was granted a concession to explore for gold between the Gweru and Hunyani rivers by Lobengula, leader of the Matabele nation. Thomas Baines died in Durban in 1875. Trevor wood was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1930. He came to Rhodesia in 1955 and established himself as a sculptor and medal designer. |
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