Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Preston Colliery Services Rendered Tribute Medal 1914-18, gold (9ct, 10.68g, hallmarks for Birmingham 1919), the reverse inscribed ‘Presented to F. Weatherley by the owners & workmen for services rendered in the Great War 1914-1918’, good very fine £100-140

Preston Colliery, North Shields, was in operation from the 1860’s until its closure in 1929. Its owners from 1910 to 1929 were U. A. Ritson & Sons Ltd.