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

№ 220

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25 September 2008

Hammer Price:
£210

Life Saving Medal, obverse, a life saving scene, reverse inscribed, ‘Presented to J. Knight, late of 6th Dragoon Guards for his great bravery in saving 5 lives’, 5 clasps, T. Kirkland, J. Hollowood, B. Broughton, J. Allen, Tpt. Shepheard, 38mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1909, swivel ring suspension, edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine £100-140

Ref. Spink Exhibition 1985, No. 182.

The medal obverse is that of the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society Marine Medal 3rd type. The names on the clasps are possibly those of the five persons saved.