Auction Catalogue

26 January 2022

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 617

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26 January 2022

Hammer Price:
£1,600

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Decoration, small gold medal, 27mm, gold (9ct?) and enamel, the obverse showing a lifeboat going to the aid of a stricken dismasted vessel, ‘Royal National Lifeboat Institution’ on enamelled ‘life ring’ around, with surmounting crown, the reverse inscribed ‘Presented by the Royal National Life Boat Institution to Andrew Tarras Esq in recognition of his valuable cooperation 1901’, with bow riband, in Alstons & Hallam, London, fitted case; together with an Aberdeen silver prize medal, the obverse featuring the City’s coat of arms, the reverse engraved ‘Andrew Sydney Tarras June 1894’ within wreath, in case of issue, extremely fine, the first rare (2) £240-£280

The Decoration of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was conferred for conspicuous and special services in the Lifeboat cause other than actual personal life-saving. Fifty-seven such awards had been made in the period up to the end of 1906 (Lifeboat Magazine Archive refers).

Andrew Tarras was a Solicitor from Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, and served as Hon. Sec. of Fraserburgh R.N.L.I. from the 1860s until 1913, when the position was taken over by one of his sons, J. Wallace Tarras

Andrew Sydney Tarras was born in 1877, eldest son of the above.

For other Tarras family medals, see Lot 153.