Miniature Medals

Royal Humane Society, large silver medal (Mr. John Dymond, Restored Sarah Binder, June 8. 1777) fitted with contemporary loop for suspension, very fine and believed to be the earliest known surviving award from this Society £300-350

See Colour Plate V

Royal Humane Society Case CXI, Annual Report 1778.

On the evening of the 8th June 1777, the body of Sarah Binder, a servant from Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, was discovered by two constables at the foot of Blackfriar’s Bridge. She had evidently jumped from the bridge in an attempted suicide whilst in circumstances of great distress, occasioned by an illness which had forced her to pawn all her clothes in order to procure still greater necessaries. John Dymond, a Medical Assistant, was called to the scene where he found the girl supported by a watchman before a large fire, to all appearance dead. Dymond ordered her to be immediately conveyed to the Parish work-house, where he was able to successfully restore her over the following two days. Sold with full copy of the Annual Report, from which the above precis is taken.