Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Fire Brigade Prize Medal, ovoid, 42 x 36mm., silver with enamelled centre depicting a firemen rescuing a child, inscribed, ‘Dewer Challenge Shield, Marlborough Cup’; reverse inscribed, ‘Presented by the Nelson Corporation, Nelson Brigade Winning Team, Birmingham July 1899 Fireman E. Snowden’, hallmarks for Birmingham 1899, with brooch bar inscribed, ‘Steamer Drill’; Fire Brigade Prize Medal, 41 x 35mm., engraved six-pointed silver star, hallmarks for Birmingham 1912, obverse an old fire-engine; reverse inscribed, ‘Presented to Engineer Andrews, Special Prize, One Man Drill, Broadstairs 1912’, with brooch bar; Fire Brigade Long Service Cross, 44 x 42mm., bronze, obverse inscribed, ‘Fire Brigade 20 Years Service’; reverse inscribed, ‘Volunteer W. M. Bromwich joined 1857’, with bronze buckle on ribbon, good very fine (3) £140-180