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

№ 998

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6 July 2004

Hammer Price:
£90

National Fire Brigades Union L.S. Medal, reverse engraved, ‘346 Wr. Hy. Beaumont, P.F.B.’, edge impressed, ‘346’, bronze, with brooch bar and two ‘Five Years’ slip bars; ‘National Fire Brigades Association L.S. Medal, reverse engraved, ‘Wakefield Mental Hospital’ (8172 Norman J. Hughes), bronze, with ‘Ten Years’ brooch bar and ‘Five Years’ slip bar; National Fire Brigades Association, North Western District Medal (2), silver, gold and enamel, reverse inscribed, ‘Motor Dry Drill, R. Massey, Wigan 1935’, hallmarks for Birmingham 1934; another, similar, reverse inscribed, ‘Hose Cart Drill’, hallmarks for Birmingham 1930, good very fine (4) £70-90

See D.N.W. 16 December 2003, lot 1141, for the National Fire Brigades Association Medal in silver awarded to Hughes.