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

№ 168

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25 September 2008

Hammer Price:
£980

A rare Lloyd’s Medal for Services to Lloyd’s group of three awarded to Signal Master Edward Robinson, Lloyd’s Signal Station, Port Said

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (E. B. Robinson, Boy 1/Cl., H.M.S. “Orion”); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed; Lloyd’s Medal for Services to Lloyd’s, silver (Signal Master E. Robinson, Port Said, Egypt, Aug. 1917) this last in case of issue, first with edge bruising, pitted, nearly very fine; star better; last extremely fine (3) £700-800

Lloyd’s Medal awarded by Committee decision, 15 August 1917.

In Lloyd’s Medals Medal for Services to Lloyd’s, by George A. Brown, L.S.A.R.S.J. Feb. 1988, p.26-28, a total of 14 gold and 10 silver medals were listed. The medal was instituted in 1913 and Robinson’s award in 1917 was the first silver medal to be issued.