Auction Catalogue

25 September 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 183

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25 September 2008

Hammer Price:
£350

Mercantile Marine Service Association Medal, silver, reverse inscribed, ‘Presented to Capt. W. Gould, S.S. Lake Winnipeg for saving crew of Norwegian barque “Surrey”, Feb. 18 1885’, with silver buckle on ribbon, extremely fine £250-300

Ref. Spink Exhibition 1985, No. 99.

For the same rescue, Captain Gould was awarded the Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society Marine Medal in Silver.