Auction Catalogue

6 July 2004

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

Lot

№ 340

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6 July 2004

Hammer Price:
£170

Presentation Pocket Watch for Lifesaving, a key-less hunting-cased pocket watch by the American Waltham Watch Co., the inner case inscribed, ‘Presented by the Government of Canada to Mr Wm. Greig, Carpenter, British S.S. Blakemoor, in recognition of his humane and gallant exertions in the rescue of the shipwrecked crew of Schr. “Clifford” of Halifax N.S., 13th Feby. 1896’, outer case with engine-turned decoration, front engraved, ‘W.G.’, winding button lacking, main dial hands missing, back inner and outer cases slack, inner workings now loose, fair condition £50-70