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Sold on 25 September 2008

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The Collection of Life Saving Awards formed by The Late W.H. Fevyer

William Henry Fevyer

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№ 189

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25 September 2008

Hammer Price:
£720

Bristol Humane Society, 48mm., silver, reverse inscribed, ‘To Aubrey McGuire, for saving the life of Charles Burdon, July 7th 1878’, swivel straight bar suspension, silver buckle on ribbon, contact marks, very fine and scarce £300-350

Ref. Spink Exhibition 1985, No. 35.

The medal is illustrated in
Notes on the Bristol Humane Society, by Bill Fevyer, L.S.A.R.S.J. No. 13, p.45.