Auction Catalogue

4 July 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Miniature Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 692

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4 July 2001

Hammer Price:
£190

Rocket Apparatus Volunteer Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., type 2 (Stanley Fry Bell) in Royal Mint case of issue; together with three named North Mail and Chronicle life saving challenge competition medals, extremely fine and the rare (4) £80-100

Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris speculates in his book, Naval Long Service Medals, that the Rocket Apparatus Volunteer Long service, type 2 (‘Fid Def’ legend) might never have been issued at all.