Auction Catalogue

1 December 2010

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 470

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1 December 2010

Hammer Price:
£280

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Fire Medal, bronze (To Mrs Edith Ralph, for Meritorious Service, 5th March, 1921) with silver buckle on ribbon, edge bruising, very fine £200-250

‘Bronze Medal and Certificate of Thanks to Mrs Edith Ralph, for bravely extinguishing the burning clothing on an aged woman, fatally burned in a house in Hawkestone Street, on the March 5th, 1921’. (Ref: Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society – 82nd Annual Report, year ending 1st July 1921, p.37). With copied society report extract.