Lot Archive

Lot

№ 701

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4 July 2001

Hammer Price:
£20

Royal Humane Society Proficiency Medal, in silver, 51mm, obverse with life saving scene, inscribed ‘Nare Est Alienam Nosse Salutem’, engraved below ‘H.M.S. Boscawen 1902’, reverse inscribed ‘Royal Humane Society Inst. 1774. Awarded for proficiency in swimming exercise with reference to saving life from drowning’, edge engraved ‘Henry George’, edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £20-30