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17 February 2021

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№ 744

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17 February 2021

Hammer Price:
£130

Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Charles Pounds, 19th. March, 1895.) minor edge bruising and lacking integral riband buckle, very fine £100-£140

Provenance: Buckland Dix & Wood, October 1993.

R.H.S. Case no. 27,618: ‘At 6:10 p.m. on 19 March 1895 Mr. James Beale, a Fisherman, accidentally fell into Portsmouth harbour in which there was about 16 feet of water. Charles Pounds, another fisherman, at once jumped in with his clothes on, got hold of Beale, and kept him afloat until they were picked up by a boat.’