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

Four: C. R. Norton, Scarborough, Southend and Tunbridge Fire Brigades

National Fire Brigades Union, silver award, hallmarks for Birmingham 1908, with upper brooch bar engraved, ‘Scarborough’, and three slide-on riband bars engraved, ‘Dixon’, ‘Junior Steamer’ and ‘National Steamer’, the reverse engraved, ‘N.F.B.U., Fireman C. R. Norton, 1908’; National Fire Brigades Union, a similar type of award in bronze, with upper brooch bar engraved, ‘Tonbridge’, and the reverse ‘N.F.B.U., Fireman C. R. Norton, 1909’; National Fire Brigades Union, a large silver award, hallmarks for Birmingham 1908, 51mm., with upper brooch bar engraved, ‘Southend’, and slide-on riband bar engraved, ‘Dixon’, the reverse engraved, ‘N.F.B.U., Fireman C. R. Norton, 1909’, in its red leather case of issue, the lid gilt inscribed, ‘Southend-on-Sea Fire Brigade’; National Fire Brigades Union Long Service Medal, bronze, with ‘Five Years’ Bar, the edge officially numbered ‘4544’, and the reverse engraved, ‘Fireman C. R. Norton, Southend-on-Sea, 1913’, in its case of issue with related issuance slip, inscribed ‘Charles Robert Porter, Southend-on-Sea, Sept. 20th 1912, Reg. No. 4544’, good very fine (4) £120-150