Orders, Decorations and Medals

Royal National Lifeboat Institution, V.R., silver, (Mr Joseph Urell. Voted 2nd July 1874) with uniface double dolphin’ suspension, minor edge bruising and contact marks, good very fine £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Life Saving Awards formed by The Late W.H. Fevyer.

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Ref. Spink Exhibition 1985, No. 62.

‘14 February 1874: The Hamburg brigantine Theodor, Venezuela to Falmouth, with a cargo of cotton seed and dyewoods, was blown off course at Thurlestone, South Devon; her Master and two men were lost. Mr Urell and is crew put off in the Coastguard boat and saved the Mate and two men’ (Ref. Lifeboat Gallantry, by Barry Cox). Sold with copied extract from the Institute’s Minutes.