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Sold on 12 December 2012

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A fine Collection of Life Saving Awards

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№ 465 x

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13 December 2012

Hammer Price:
£170

B.S.C. & Humane Society Star, 80 x 55mm., silver, with engraved ornamentation and inscribed, ‘B.S.C. & Humane Society’ ‘To Colin Forbes for Saving Life on the Beach, 19th July 1875’, reverse stamped, ‘R.Y. A.’, good very fine £150-200

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Initials ‘S.C.’ probably standing for ‘Swimming Club’.

One other recorded in
L.S.A.R.S. Journal No. 29, p.78 inscribed, ‘B.S.C. & Humane Society 1878’ ‘James Morrice for Saving Life Aberdeen Bay 18 May’.