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Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society, 1st type, silver (Capt. Edward Archer Wayth, 1854) straight bar suspension, slight edge bruising, with silver buckle on ribbon, very fine £300-350

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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Ex Dawson Collection; ref. Spink Exhibition 1985, No. 90.

Extracts from Society’s records:

Wayth, Edward, Archer, Captain of the Curlew of Southwold. ‘For praiseworthy exertions in rescuing the master and ten of the crew of the William Ray of Portsmouth during a heavy gale of wind, in the Atlantic in September 1853. Thomas Waters, Mate and John Church, awarded £1 each’.