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№ 169

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25 September 2008

Hammer Price:
£500

Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society, 1st type, silver (Capt. Edward Archer Wayth, 1854) straight bar suspension, slight edge bruising, with silver buckle on ribbon, very fine £300-350

Ex Dawson Collection; ref. Spink Exhibition 1985, No. 90.

Extracts from Society’s records:

Wayth, Edward, Archer, Captain of the
Curlew of Southwold. For praiseworthy exertions in rescuing the master and ten of the crew of the William Ray of Portsmouth during a heavy gale of wind, in the Atlantic in September 1853. Thomas Waters, Mate and John Church, awarded £1 each’.