Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

U.S.A., Humane Society of Massachusetts Lifesaving Medal, 3rd type (1854-88) by B. Wyon, London, obv. ‘Humane Society Massachusetts’, shield bearing the arms of the Society, above, a house with a scroll below bearing the word, ‘Refuge’, below the shield on a scroll the date ‘1791’; rev. engraved, ‘To John T. Quinn for rescuing two children from a burning house, East Boston, April 8 1891’, enclosed below by branches of laurel and above with inscription in raised lettering, ‘Honor Virtutis Præmium’, 57mm., silver medallion, minor edge bruise, nearly extremely fine £200-300