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12 & 13 December 2012
Hundred of Salford Humane Society, 1st type, silver (Jas. Edwd Quale, June 3. 1882) slight edge bruising, very fine £160-200
Hammer Price: £230
Pair: Able Seaman A. Charles, Royal Navy British War Medal 1914-20 (231267 A.B., R.N.); National Canine Defence League Medal, silver (To Alfred Charles for saving a dog 1937) hallmarks for Birmingham 1937, with silver brooch bar, good very fine (2) £200-250
Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, 3rd type, silver (Captn. Wm. Tindall Bell, for Gallant Service at Warrington, 14th Novr. 1914) with silver buckle on ribbon, in Oldfield, Liverpool case of issue, edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £160-200
Hammer Price: £210
Folkestone Life Saving Medal, obverse: Britannia seated presenting a wreath, ‘Merit’; reverse engraved, ‘Presented to Chas. Douglas by the Duke of Rutland, for Gallantry in Saving Four Lives from Drowning, Folkestone, 4.7.04’, 45mm., silver, straight bar suspension, some edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine £100-140
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (unsuccessful) (Cr. Sergt. John Kellie, Highland Lt. Infantry, 1st July 1893) with bronze buckle on ribbon, in (scuffed) fitted case of issue, very fine £120-160
Hammer Price: £200
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (unsuccessful) (Frederick J. Cade, P.C. 27th April 1913) with bronze buckle on ribbon, in fitted case of issue, nearly extremely fine £140-180
Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, 3rd type, silver (James Burke for a Gallant Attempt to Save a Drowning Shipmate in the River Mersey, 7th May 1897) with silver buckle on ribbon, in Elkington, London case of issue, minor edge bruising, nearly extremely fine £140-180
Corporation of Glasgow Bravery Medal, 3rd type, 9ct. gold (Peter Ferguson, 1971) hallmarks for Edinburgh 1965, complete with gold brooch bar, extremely fine £200-250
Medal for Saving Life from Fire, 44mm., silver struck medal, obverse engraved, ‘For Saving Life from Fire’; reverse engraved, ‘To James Neil of Blackburn, the 5 Year Old Hero, presented by an admirer B. Rd. Isaac of Liverpool, Vice-President of the London Private Fire Brigade Association, May God Spare You, A Good and Honorable Man, Sep. 1904’, with fixed ring suspension, nearly extremely fine £200-250
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (unsuccessful) (Walter S. Lewitt, Aug. 24 1905) extremely fine £120-160
Hammer Price: £180
R.S.P.C.A. Life Saving Medal, bronze (Inspr. T. E. Rees, R.S.P.C.A. 1938) complete with ‘For Humanity’ brooch bar, extremely fine £140-180
Royal Humane Society, large bronze medal (successful) (Elias Wannell, Shipwright, Vit. ob. Serv. D.D. Soc. Reg. Hvm. 2 Dec. 1865) fitted with ring suspension, good very fine £150-200
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
Corporation of Glasgow Bravery Medal, 1st type, silver (James McMichael) complete with ‘Gallantry’ brooch bar, nearly extremely fine £140-180
St. Andrew’s Ambulance Association Bravery Medal, for Saving Life on Land, silver, hallmarks faint, unnamed, with ‘thistle suspension and uninscribed clasp; St Andrew’s Ambulance Corps Jubilee Medal 1904-54, cupro-nickel, unnamed, this last with slight edge bruise, good very fine and better (2) £160-200
Hammer Price: £160
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Ralph Hall, 19th May 1890) with bronze buckle on ribbon, slight edge bruise, good very fine £120-160
Hammer Price: £150
Royal National Lifeboat Institution, E.VII.R., bronze specimen, unnamed, with ‘double-dolphin’ suspension, extremely fine £150-200
Medal for Saving Life From Fire, by Shand Mason & Co., London, obverse: a fireman on a ladder wielding an axe amongst blazing timbers; reverse engraved, ‘George Summers, Bravery in Saving Life, June 4th 1900’, 39mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1900, fixed ring suspension, good very fine £100-140
Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, 3rd type, silver (To John Ed. Fowler, for Gallant Service, 13th August 1922) hallmarks for Birmingham 1922, with silver buckle on ribbon, in case of issue, correction to surname, edge bruise, good very fine £120-160
Hammer Price: £120
Bristol Humane Society, silver medallion, 48mm., unnamed, slight edge bruising, nearly extremely fine £120-160
Northamptonshire Humane Society, silver, unnamed, with scroll suspension, good very fine £120-160
Hundred of Salford Humane Society, 2nd type, silver (William Barker, January 1888) good very fine £60-80
Hammer Price: £100
Hundred of Salford Humane Society, 2nd type, silver (John Fleetwood, Nov. 1889) with silver brooch bar, good very fine £60-80
Good Conduct Medal for Saving Life, obverse: shield with the motto ‘Help’; reverse engraved, ‘Good Conduct Medal Walter Orme 1885’; edge inscribed, ‘For Saving the Life of T. Edwards in Alexandria Harbour, Egypt’, swivel ring suspension, with ornate brooch bar, edge bruising, very fine £100-140
Norway & Sweden, Medal for Heroic Deeds, Oscar II, 35mm., silver, unnamed, swivel straight bar suspension, pitted, good fine £100-140
Presentation Cigarette Box, 114 x 84 x 37mm., silver, with wooden interior and base, hallmarks unclear, side inscribed, ‘Presented to J. E. Palmer in recognition of Lifesaving Services’, lid inscribed, ‘M/T. St. Finbarr 25th December 1966’, one side slightly buckled, good condition £100-150
Portugal, Medal for Courage, Selflessness and Humanity, silver, unnamed, swivel oval ring suspension, nearly extremely fine £50-70
Hammer Price: £80
Lifeboat Service Presentation Statue, approx. 135mm. high, brass figure of a member of a life boat in foul weather gear, behind his back a lifebelt inscribed, ‘G. D. MacDougald 1934’, standing on a plinth inscribed, ‘Presented to [blank] for Work for the Lifeboat Service’, very good condition £60-80
Hammer Price: £75
Medal for Saving Life at Sea, by Ben Wyon, obverse: a sailing ship in distress perilously near rocks with a lifeboat coming to the rescue; reverse inscribed, ‘To [blank] he risked his own to save anothers life’, 41mm., silver, swivel ring suspension, nearly extremely fine £60-100
Hammer Price: £65
Royal Humane Society, proficiency in swimming medallion, obverse exergue inscribed, ‘Royal Naval School, 1888’, silver (Harry Ernest Chapman) extremely fine £60-80
Hammer Price: £60
Fleetwood Humane Society, 38mm., bronze, unnamed, unmounted, extremely fine £60-80
Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, 3rd type, bronze (Awarded to D. Sutherland for Saving Life in River Medway in 74 River Dee in 86) renamed, claw re-pinned and slack, edge bruising, very fine £40-60
Hammer Price: £55
Bristol Animals’ Friend Society Medal, obverse: a horse, goat and dog, ‘The Bristol Animals’ Friend Society Established 1861’; reverse inscribed (name engraved), ‘Presented to William Nichols as a Reward for Humanity to Animals’, 50mm., white metal, pierced for ring suspension, very fine £50-70
Hammer Price: £50
Bristol Humane Society, Long Distance Swimming Medal, to pupils of Bristol Elementary Schools, reverse inscribed (part engraved) ‘Fred Slocombe swam 1/4 mile 1896’, white metal, in fitted case of issue; Hundred of Salford Humane Society, Swimming Medal, reverse inscribed, ‘Edwd. Littlewood 1898’, silver and enamel, good very fine (2) £40-60
Hammer Price: £40
France, Medal of Honour, Ministry of the Interior, for Lifesaving (Mr Lucien Richard, 23 Octbre 1908) bronze, good very fine £20-30
Hammer Price: £30
Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, 1st type, silver, struck medal with swivel ring suspension, unnamed, with silver buckle on ribbon, minor scuffing and edge bruising, good very fine, very scarce £200-300
£200–£300
St. Andrew’s Ambulance Association Bravery Medal, for Saving Life on Land, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1913 (James Ferns) with ‘thistle suspension and clasp inscribed, ‘Paisley 12.11.34’, suspension slack, good very fine, scarce £650-750
£650–£750
Carnegie Hero Fund Medallion, 90mm., bronze, unnamed specimen, extremely fine £150-200
£150–£200
Fleetwood Humane Society, reverse inscribed, ‘Awarded to John Robert Thomason by the Fleetwood Humane Society for Bravery Displayed on 7th Nov. 1890’, 38mm., gold, swivel ring suspension, with gold slip bar on ribbon, slight edge bruising, nearly extremely fine, extremely rare £1400-1800
£1,400–£1,800
Port of Plymouth Humane Society, bronze cross, reverse inscribed, ‘Port of Plymouth Humane Society awarded Arthur Matthews for rescuing A. Pengelly, 18 April 1921’, with bronze buckle on ribbon, in case, extremely fine £200-250
£200–£250
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