Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, silver Swimming Profficiency Medal, the reverse hallmarked Birmingham 1934 and inscribed ‘Presented by the Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society to Daniel Whelan, Lawrence Road Council School, for proficiency in swimming exercises with the object of saving life. 31/10/35’, with dolphin suspension and engraved silver ribbon brooch, in its case of issue, good very fine £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of R.W. Gould, MBE.

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These remarkably ornate medals must have cost more to produce than the Society’s actual silver life-saving medals.