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16 December 2003
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
£500–£600
Lancashire Constabulary Life Saving League (A. W. Glade), 42mm., bronze, unmounted, extremely fine £60-80
Hammer Price: £70
Liverpool Medal for Heroism, obverse: St. George with sword and shield,a dragon at his feet, ‘To Commemorate a Brave Act’; reverse: a ‘Liverbird’ and a female figure of ‘Victory’, with the inscription, ‘Liverpool, Presented to Robert Stannard King, For Heroism, March 16th 1927’, 51mm., silver medallion, hallmarks for Birmingham 1926, slight edge bruise, good very fine, rare £280-320
Hammer Price: £360
Northamptonshire Humane Society (Revdus. Joh: Heriett de Pilton, 1791), 38mm., silver, unmounted, slight edge bruising, very fine, rare £250-300
Hammer Price: £300
Plym Tamar Lynher and Tavy Humane Society, silver (To John Yeo, who to save another’s Life risked his own, June 20th 1838), pierced at 12 o’clock for suspension, some edge bruising, very fine, scarce £220-260
Hammer Price: £220
Hundred of Salford Humane Society, 1st type, silver (William Olive, August 1878), with straight bar suspension, edge bruise, good very fine, scarce £180-220
Hundred of Salford Humane Society, 2nd type, silver (William Collier, June 1887), with ornate silver brooch bar, good very fine £60-80
Hammer Price: £65
Hundred of Salford Humane Society, shield-shaped, with crossed tridents, bearing three enamelled shields at its centre, reverse inscribed, ‘Marjorie Brightmore, 1917’, 38 x 35mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1916, good very fine £20-30
Hammer Price: £35
Life Saving Society, Scottish Centre, Waddell Challenge Shield Medal, reverse inscribed (Won by L. McKenzie, 1899), 32mm., bronze, good very fine £20-30
Hammer Price: £30
Shropshire Society in London Life Saving Medal (Presented to John Bennett, for gallantly rescuing Herbert Rhodes from drowning in the Severn at Shrewsbury on Jan. 7th 1923), 51mm., silver, complete with brooch bar, in Pinches, London case of issue, extremely fine, rare £400-500
£400–£500
County Borough of Southend-on-Sea Pier Department Life Saving Medal (W. Webster, 28.7.1926), 37.5mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1926, with ornate gold brooch bar, good very fine, rare £250-300
Hammer Price: £390
Surrey Commercial Dock Company Medal for Saving Life (William E. Edwards, July .19.07), silver, in case of issue, good very fine, rare £250-300
Hammer Price: £450
Weston-super-Mare Life Saving Medal, obverse: a naked man about to dive to the rescue; reverse: engraved, ‘Presented to H. W. Harris, for Saving Life, Aug. 2nd 1921, Weston-super-Mare’, 26mm., 9ct. gold., hallmarks for Birmingham 1921, good very fine £120-160
Hammer Price: £210
Windsor & Eton Humane Society, reverse inscribed (Diving from 12 to 14 Years of Age, Henry Guthrie), 32mm., silver, unmounted, good very fine £50-70
£50–£70
Wisbech Humane Society, obverse: a seated and robed woman holding a caduceus and presenting a wreath, engraved, ‘Wisbech Humane Society’; reverse inscribed (Richard W. R. Reeve, Decr. 30th 1910), 38mm., silver, unmounted, extremely fine £250-350
Hammer Price: £150
‘The Fleet’ Medal for Merit, reverse inscribed (Presented to Charles Street P.O. of H.M.S. Temeraire for Bravery, September 1909), 44mm., bronze, very fine, rare £250-300
Hammer Price: £370
‘Golden Penny’ Medal (Owen Holman, 1903), 36mm., silver, nearly extremely fine, rare £400-500
Hammer Price: £440
‘North Mail & Chronicle’ Life Saving Medal, obverse: coastguards with rocket apparatus, lighthouse in the background (G. E. Hayes), 27mm., silver, good very fine £60-80
‘Pluck’ Medal for Heroism (Sgt. Beisly), 32mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1897, with silver brooch bar inscribed, ‘Special Service’, in case, good very fine, rare £250-300
Hammer Price: £230
‘Slopers’ Medal of Valour (Presented to John Jones for his courageous conduct at Aberaman Colliery, “The Sloperies”, Decr. 7 1889), 36mm., silver, complete with silver brooch bar, in case of issue, extremely fine, rare £250-300
Hammer Price: £420
‘Today’ Gallantry Fund Medal, silver (Samuel Wilkinson, Decr. 15 1894), complete with brooch bar, nearly extremely fine, rare £250-300
Hammer Price: £310
The Society of the Golden Cord, Christian Million Newspaper, Medal of Honour, obverse: sailor at the bow of a boat throwing a life-belt to a drowning man, engraved, ‘Joseph Kirkup’; reverse: a knot in the form of a shamrock, ‘Established May 1885’, 32mm., silvered base metal, pierced for suspension, edge bruising and buckled, nearly very fine; Chronicle Life Saving Challenge Competition Medal (P. Rawbone), 27mm., bronze, good very fine (2) £20-30
Hammer Price: £60
Atlas Assurance Company Medal, 46mm., silver medallion, obverse: the titan Atlas supporting the World; reverse inscribed, ‘An Acknowledgment (sic) by the Atlas Assurance Company of the great exertions of Mr William Huntriss in extinguishing a Fire on the 28th April 1812 at the Regulator Corn Mill near Halifax’, in case of issue, edge bruising, good very fine and very rare £300-400
Moray Floods Medal 1829, obverse: a view of the Bridge of Spey, partially destroyed by the river in a raging flood; reverse: inscription in raised lettering (name engraved), ‘Presented by the Central Committee for the Flood Fund to William Dean Beathill as an Honorary Reward for his Courage and Humanity shewn at the Great Flood August 4th 1829’, silver, with loop suspension, extremely fine £250-300
Hammer Price: £480
American Arctic Expedition Medal 1851, obverse: two sailing ships stuck fast in ice, ‘Advance [&] Rescue’; reverse, inscription in raised lettering (name engraved), ‘Presented by the British Residents of New York, to Harman G. Wille, Carpenter, in commemoration of his services, in the American Arctic Expedition, sent by Henry Grinnell Esq. in search of Sir John Franklin, 1851’, 38mm., silver, pierced with ring suspension, cleaned, pitted surface through fire damage, otherwise nearly...
Hammer Price: £3,200
Lawson Medal, obverse: in two lines ‘Lawson Medal’ enclosed by a wreath of grasses tied at the base by a ribbon; reverse engraved, ‘Presented to James Shaw by Peter Lawson & Son, Edinburgh, As a memorial of the courage displayed by him in rescuing two children from the fire that occured on their premises Nov. 20th 1851 and also in testimony of their general approbation of his conduct during the time he has been in their employment’, 38mm., gold, 24g., unmounted, in case of issue...
Laetitia Lifeboat Medal 1866, silver, obverse: the Austrian brig ‘Osip’ sinking; reverse inscribed in raised letters, ‘Presented to each member of the crew of the Lifeboat Laetitia for the gallant rescue of 7 Austrian sailors from the brig Osip lost off Lowestoft during the storm of Jan. 13th 1866, Esto Perpetua’, unnamed, ring mount and ring suspension, in case, extremely fine, rare £120-160
Wreck of the ‘Chusan’ Medal 1874, an ornate silver medal 52mm. diameter, with a ropework border and elaborate anchor and life-belt suspension, obverse: engraved scene of the paddle-steamer Chusan sinking near a harbour pier; reverse engraved ‘Subscriber’s Medal presented to Wm. Breckenridge for the heroic efforts in saving life at the wreck of the Chusan in Ardrossen Harbour, 21st Octr. 1874’, attractive, extremely fine, rare £300-400
Hammer Price: £800
Maharajah of Burdwan’s Medal for Gallant Conduct at the the Burning of H.M.S. Goliath 1875, silver (W. Murphy),cleaned, slight edge bruising, very fine £400-450
Hammer Price: £680
Ducal Gallant Conduct Cross 1878, obverse: ‘A’ cypher with ducal coronet above, ‘For Gallant Conduct 1878’ (George Goan Macbean), 24 x 24mm., gold, nearly extremely fine £120-160
Hammer Price: £80
Naval Life Saving Medal, obverse by Wyon: three-masted warship adjacent to rocks in a heavy sea, with a six-oared rowing-boat making towards her; reverse inscription in raised letters (name engraved) ‘To Charles Black he risked his own life to save another life’, 40mm., silver, with loop suspension, mid-19th century, some edge bruising, very fine £80-100
Hammer Price: £160
Medal for Bravery at Sea 1887, obverse: crowned and veiled bust of Queen Victoria left, by W.J.T. & Sons, London, reverse inscribed, ‘Presented to Robert Rayner of the Rival L.T.428 for Bravery at Sea, Dec. 1887’, 35mm., silver, good very fine £80-100
Hammer Price: £130
C.Q.D. Medal 1909, silver (Phillip McGoldrick) some edge bruising, good very fine £180-220
A rare Shipping Federation Medal for Meritorious Service pair to Captain W. McLeod, Royal Naval Reserve British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. W. MacLeod, R.N.R.); Shipping Federation Medal for Meritorious Service, 1st (1910) type (Capt. W. McLeod, 20th Feb 1917), 38mm., silver, pierced for suspension, very fine (2) £250-300
Hammer Price: £250
Netherlands section of the League of Neutral Countries’ Medallion 1917, obverse: two sailors shaking hands, with others in the background; reverse inscription in raised letters (name engraved), ‘The Netherlands Section of the League of Neutral Countries to A. Woodrow in grateful commemoration of the services tendered by the English sailors who rescued with peril of life the crews of seven unarmed Dutch Merchant-men surreptitiously attacked and recklessly destroyed by a German submarine...
‘Princess Margaret’ Deliverance from Bolsheviks Medal 1919, obverse: fouled anchor enclosed by a life-belt, ‘Princess Margaret’ in raised letters above and engraved ‘William Williamson’ below; reverse in raised letters, ‘Riga - London, 3rd Jany. 1919, 17th Jany. 1919, From the Grateful Passengers in Remembrance of their Deliverance from the Bolsheviks’, 38mm., white metal, pierced with ring suspension, good very fine and rare £100-150
Seaton Sluice Volunteer Life Saving Apparatus Company Medal 1924, obverse: two men on a cliff firing a rocket towards a grounded ship; reverse inscribed, ‘Seaton Sluice Volunteer L.S.A. Company, winners of Newcastle Chronicle Cup, 1924, No.2 Charles Major’, 26mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1924, very fine £30-40
I.C.I. Gold Medal for Conspicuous Bravery, obverse: ‘Awarded for Bravery’ with a lion rampant bearing the letters, ‘I.C.I.’; reverse inscription raised letters (name, locality and date engraved), ‘Presented to Robert Little by Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd for Conspicuous Bravery at Blackley Works on 11th January 1939’, 38 x 26mm., 9ct. gold, hallmarks for Birmingham 1938, complete with hallmarked gold brooch bar ‘Fortis’, extremely fine, rare £600-800
Hammer Price: £1,100
A Rare Second World War B.E.M. and L.N.E.R. Gallantry Medal pair to Station Foreman J. W. Keeble British Empire Medal, (Civil) G.VI.R. 1st issue (James William Keeble); London and North Eastern Railway Gallantry Medal, silver (J. W. Keeble, 10th June 1940), complete with brooch bar, in Pinches, London case of issue, extremely fine (2) £900-1200
Hammer Price: £1,600
A rare London Blitz B.E.M. and L.M.S. Medal for Courage pair to Chief Foreman H. J. Taylor British Empire Medal, (Civil) G.VI.R., 1st issue (Henry Joseph Taylor); London, Midland and Scottish Railway Medal for Courage, silver (Chief Foreman Henry Joseph Taylor, Poplar 7th September 1940), engraved ‘1940’ on reverse exergue, complete with brooch bar, extremely fine (2) £900-1200
Hammer Price: £3,500
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