Auction Catalogue

5 April 2006

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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

Lot

№ 776

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5 April 2006

Hammer Price:
£130

Royal Humane Society, large, bronze, successful (William Tallack, Seaman, H.M.S. Retribution, 8 April 1856) fitted with ring suspension, some contact marks, very fine £100-140

Ex Robert W. Tilling Collection, ref. L.S.A.R.S. Journal No.18, p.26-33.

Seamen William Tallack and A. Grant of H.M.S.
Retribution effected their successful rescue at Spithead on 8 April 1856 (Case No.15847).