Life Saving, Police and Fire Brigade Medals from the James N Spencer Collection

Lancashire Humane Society, reverse inscribed (Presented to Mr Benjamin Witham Booth for his zealous exertions on behalf of the Humane Society, 1838), 52mm., silver medallion, good very fine, very rare £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Life Saving, Police and Fire Brigade Medals from the James N Spencer Collection.

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Ex D.N.W. 9 December 1999, lot 391.

The Lancashire Humane Society was instituted in 1789 and revived in 1824. Little is known of this Society, one of many local Humane Societies prevalent in England at this time, but an example of this medal is recorded in the British Museum Collection.