Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

U.S.A., Humane Society of Massachusetts, 4th type, by Wyon, London, obv. shield bearing the arms of the Society, rev. engraved within a wreath of oak and laurel, ‘To Nat Parodi for Gallantry in Saving Life, Haverhill, April 21, 1903’, 39mm., bronze, complete with brooch bar, sometime silvered, good very fine £100-140

Nat Parodi was awarded the Society’s bronze medal for rescuing a boy from drowning at Haverhill, 21 April 1903.