Auction Catalogue

19 September 2003

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. To coincide with the OMRS Convention

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

Lot

№ 695

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19 September 2003

Hammer Price:
£75

River Mersey Lifeboat Race Medal, 37mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham, obverse: engraved scene of a lifeboat being rowed in heavy seas to a sailing ship in distress; reverse: inscribed, ‘River Mersey Lifeboat Race, W. Armitage, member of Winning Crew, 23 April 1894’, good very fine £60-80