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

№ 696

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4 July 2001

Hammer Price:
£55

Royal Humane Society, large bronze medal (successful), (Chas. Rickard, 28 Feby. 1849) some details have been scored out after his name, probably ‘Coast Guard Boatman’, fitted with bronze clip and ring for suspension, very fine £40-50

Royal Humane Society Case No. 14,716: Michael Barrett and Charles Rickard, Coast Guard Boatmen, Littlehampton, dashed through the breakers and with a line to the vessel, saved a female named Barber, wife of the Master of Sloop “Charles & Laurel” of Colchester, 28 February 1849, off Coast Guard Station at Cockbush.