Auction Catalogue

17 September 2004

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

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

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Lot

№ 938

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17 September 2004

Hammer Price:
£390

Royal National Lifeboat Institution, G.IV.R., silver (R. N. Barron Esq. Voted 7 March 1861), uniface ‘double-dolphin’ suspension, good very fine £250-300

Ex J. B. Hayward Collection, Spink 7 November 1995.

R.N.L.I. Silver Medals awarded to Master Mariner Augustin Dower and Robert N. Baron Esquire on 7 March 1861.

‘19 February 1861: The Cork brigantine
Susan was wrecked off Ballinacourty, ten miles from Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland, during severe weather. Mr Barron, Captain Dower and four other men put off and, at considerable risk to life, saved two out the brigantine’s crew of six men.’