Auction Catalogue

25 September 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 150

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25 September 2008

Hammer Price:
£250

A Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society General Medal and Certificate of Award to Harold Powell for stopping a runaway horse

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, General Medal, bronze (To Harold Powell, for meritorious service, 22nd August 1923) with bronze brooch bar, nearly extremely fine £200-250

Ref. Spink Exhibition 1985, No. 146.

Extract from the Society’s records:

‘For praiseworthy service in stopping a runaway horse attached to a float in Peel Street, Birkenhead, on 22nd August 1923’.

Sold with original Certificate of Award, 298 x 214mm., folded and torn.