Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Humane Society, large silver medal by Lewis Pingo (Mr C. Hyde, restored W.X.W. June 16. 1786.) fitted with ornate silver suspension, nearly very fine £200-250

Sold with copied details from the Journal of the Royal Humane Society, Case No. 554. The body of a woman having been pulled from the river near St George’s Fields by Mr J. C. Leignes, ‘cold and to all appearance dead’, she was successfully restored to life by some women under the instruction of Mr C. Hyde.