Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Humane Society, large bronze medal (successful) (...llins, 1840) heavily worn with severe edge bruising and and naming obscured in parts, pierced for ring suspension, fair £40-£60

H. Collins, a Marine serving in H.M.S. Impregnable, was awarded a Royal Humane Society Bronze Medal in 1840 for a rescue at Hamoaze, on the River Tamar in Plymouth, on 29 September 1840 (R.H.S. Case no. 13,558).