Miniature Medals

Royal Humane Society, large silver medal (Do. Penn, Vitam ob Restitutam 1798) minor bruising and test mark to rim, otherwise good very fine £250-300

Annual report for 1798 states: ‘W. Duncan, taken out of the River insensible; Mr Penn, Med. Assistant.’ Mr Penn is listed as a Medical Assistant at Stoke Newington in the county of Middlesex.