Auction Catalogue

13 & 14 September 2012

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 520

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13 September 2012

Hammer Price:
£380

A fine group of medals awarded to Fireman W. Pargeter, Brierley Hill Fire Brigade

National Fire Brigades Union Prize Medal, ornate silver medal by Vaughton, Birmingham, obverse engraved with an ancient fire engine, reverse inscribed, ‘N.F.B.U. Highbury 1905 Horse Cart Drill, Fireman W. Pargeter’, hallmarks for Birmingham 1905, with silver brooch bar, in Cartwright Bros., Brierley Hill case of issue, lid inscribed, ‘N.F.B.U. Crystal Palace 1905’; another, similar, reverse inscribed, ‘N.F.B.U. National Manuel Shield 1906 W. Pargeter’, hallmarks for Birmingham 1904, with silver brooch bar, in Vaughton, Birmingham case of issue, lid inscribed, ‘N.F.B.U. National Manuel Shield 1906’; another, ornate, silver and enamel, ‘Brierly Hill Brigade’, reverse inscribed, ‘N.F.B.U. Ambulance Cup 1906 W. Pargeter’, in Vaughton, Birmingham case of issue, lid inscribed, ‘N.F.B.U. Ambulance Cup 1906’; National Fire Brigades Union L.S. Medal, bronze, edge numbered, ‘3105’; National Fire Brigades Association L.S. Medal, silver, with ‘Twenty Years’ brooch bar and three ‘Five Years’ slip bars (2951 William Pargetter) some wear to cases, medals good very fine and better (5) £150-250

With an associated copied photograph of an engine and firemen of the Brierley Hill Fire Brigade.