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• Auction House:
  Cordy's
• Sale Name:
  January 2017 Art & Antique Auction
• Sale Date:
  24 Jan 2017 ~ 10am (NZ time) - Session 1: Lots 1 - 275
  24 Jan 2017 ~ 5pm (NZ time) - Session 2: Lots 300 - 583
• Lot #:
  304
• Lot Description:
  An early 20thC coloured enamelled large silver crucifix on chain engraved 'Rev D.C. Bates
  the crucifix with blue, white, red and green detail, engraved and dated to the reverse 22 May 1938, on silver plate long decorative linked chain. Crucifix length 80.
• Notes:
  Rev. Daniel Cross Bates (1868-1954) was a noted clergyman and meteorologist, ordained at Newcastle in 1892 before coming to N.Z. in 1898; during 1902 Bates served with the 9th N.Z. Contingent in the Boer War attaining the rank of Chaplain-Colonel; due to illness he retired from the church in 1903. In the same year he joined the staff of the Colonial Museum relieving the Director, Augustus Hamilton of the large amount of climatological work which was at that time a museum responsibility. He became director of the Meteorological Office in 1909.
• Estimate:
  NZ$300 - 300
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Jewellery

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