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 Our name and logo reflect our
origins in Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
'Aberdeen Medals' is run as a hobbyist's site,
where I am offering, for exchange, or sale, medals that are now surplus to my
collection and collecting requirements
The owner of Aberdeen Medals, Mark Sellar, has been
enthusiastically collecting and sourcing medals for more than 35 years.
Complementing, my medal collecting, I have always been an intrepid traveller.
Indeed I spent much of my early life living between Bahrain and the United
Kingdom - an experience that greatly influenced my abiding interest in history
'East of Suez'.
Circa 1979-1989, I trawled the countries of the
Indian Subcontinent in pursuit of medals awarded to the old British Indian
Army. Those were happy days, and in a 10 year period, I sourced thousands of
medals, including several hundred decorations. Amongst the rarer and more
important finds were: The unique, IDSM and bar / MM group to Puran Singh, 5/14
Punjab; A GCB Collar to a Nepalese 'Hereditary' Prime Minister; More than a
score Indian Order of Merit Groups; The IDSM/MM pair to Gurbaksh Singh, 9/14
Punjab (whose medals now reside together with his 'portrait in oils' in the
Imperial War Museum Collections), and the BEM awarded to Bhajbir Gurung, 2/5
R.G.R. who was the indomitable Orderly to 'Bill Slim' throughout the latter's
command of the 14th Army.
A good number of the more interesting items I
source, then as now, grace some of the finest private, and publicly owned
British medal collections across the world. The 'Brian Ritchie' and 'Richard
Magor' collections contained numerous examples of medals I had sourced on my
travels. In addition, I was also a regular supplier to those architects of
great medal collections, Nimrod Dix and Andrew Litherland, when they were
located at 17, Piccadilly Arcade, and Spink, respectively.
In 1989, I joined NYK Line of Japan, and spent the
next 15 years assigned to their regional management centres in Hong Kong and
Singapore. Latterly I established and was Chairman of a multi-site logistics
company in India. In 2004, I bid a temporary farewell to Asia when, together
with my family, I relocated back to the United Kingdom, and the pursuit of a
new career. However, my career path turned full circle gain, when in April
2008, I returned to Asia to take up an appointment as Chief Executive Officer
of a regional Shipping and Logistics Company.
I am confident that the knowledge I have accrued
over many years of collecting and researching medals, will here combine to
offer collectors and investors a rare and enjoyable level of satisfaction when
obtaining medals from 'Aberdeen Medals'.
Good luck with your collecting!
Mark D. Sellar
(Orders and Medals Research
Society # 2232) |
