Turkey: (Ottoman Empire). Yemen Campaign Medal 1892

The medal retaining it's original silk riband, this with a contemporary mounting bar (sans pin) attached

For the only topical to the period published English language source pertaining to Yemen and the Yemen Rebellion of 1892 reference 'A journey Through Yemen' (Walter B. Harris, 1893) by the British journalist, writer & traveller, Walter Burton Harris, an Arabic linguist, who travelled across Yemen in 1892 - a unique event for a British citizen in the late 19th Century, and the more extraordinary for having made his journey during the Yemen Rebellion

A choice example of a scarce Ottoman campaign medal, rarely found in such delightful toned / patinated condition, with fine sharp detail to the calligraphy on both obverse and reverse of the medal

Condition: Toned GVF

Code: 20913