Auction Catalogue

16 December 2003

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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

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Lot

№ 952

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16 December 2003

Hammer Price:
£290

Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society, silver, by Davis, Birmingham (John Dixon, 1863), with double-dolphin suspension, this slack, good very fine £200-250

John Dixon, Master of the Smack Richard of Ramsgate. ‘Aided by his crew, four in number, in rescuing from their foundering vessel the master and crew, consisting of eight persons of the brig Edgar of Blyth. Awarded the Silver Medal and £8 to the master and crew, to be apportioned by the Honorary Agent.’