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12 November 2020

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Lot

№ 755

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12 November 2020

Hammer Price:
£260

Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Snowdon Davis. 23 September 1885) with Second Award Bar ‘25th. March 1887.’ the reverse of the bar officially numbered ‘23438’, the medal gilded, with the suspension reverse to form an elaborate loop and ring suspension, suspended from the Second Award Bar, lacking riband and integral top riband buckle, gilding rubbed in parts, nearly very fine £120-£160

Snowdon Davis was awarded his Royal Humane Society Bronze Medal for saving life at Redheugh Bridge on the River Tyne on 23 September 1885 (R.H.S. Case no. 22,919), and his Second Award Bar for saving life at the same location on 25 March 1887 (R.H.S. Case no. 23,438).