Lot Archive

Lot

№ 641

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8 July 2010

Hammer Price:
£220

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, 3rd type, silver (George F. Wright for having Jumped into the Mersey and Saved a Child from Drowning, July 17, 1884) complete with silver buckle on ribbon, in Elkington case of issue, nearly extremely fine £160-200

‘A Silver Medal and Vote of Thanks to George F. Wright, jeweller, for having bravely jumped into the Mersey at high water and rescued a child which had fallen into the river from Seacombe pierhead on the 17th July, 1884’.