Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

France, Kingdom, Medal of Honour for Saving Life, Ministry of the Marine, large silver medal, 4th issue, by Montagny, 42mm, Louis Philippe on obverse, 5th model reverse inscribed ‘A Vincent (William). Garde-Côte. Pour avoir Courageusement Secoure des Marins Français Naufragés. 1841’ on cartouche flanked by supporters, unmounted but pierced at 12 o’clock, silver stamp to edge, housed in fitted case of issue, edge bruise, nearly extremely fine £240-£280

Sold together with an unrelated bronze Life Saving Medal, the reverse engraved ‘B. Barmentlo, Haarlem, 17 April 1942’.