Auction Catalogue

19 & 20 March 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 699

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20 March 2008

Hammer Price:
£210

Corporation of Glasgow Bravery Medal, 2nd type, silver (S. L. Bryons) unusual style of naming within scroll, complete with silver brooch bar, both medal and bar with hallmarks for Birmingham 1953, in slightly damaged Cuthbert, Glasgow case of issue, extremely fine
£100-140

Sold with original citation document which reads, ‘The Corporation of the City of Glasgow, The Medal for Bravery is awarded to Samuel Lawson Bryons, 54 John Knox Street, Glasgow, for bravery in attempting to rescue a child from drowning in the Forth and Clyde Canal on 4th July, 1964’.