Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Decoration, Type II, 2nd class, silver and enamel, with hallmarks for Garrad & Co., London 1912, unnamed as issued, with mounting pin for wear, very fine, scarce £220-£260

A new decoration to replace the original award which was replaced after 1909 by a new decoration in the form of a blue enamelled cross, to be awarded in two classes, gold and silver, and was manufactured by Messrs. Garrad & Co in 1912. However H.M. King George raised objections which led it it being discontinued on 14 May 1914, after just ten awards in gold and none in silver. A very scarce surviving silver example which is believed to have been used as the photographed example which appears in The Medal Yearbook, item no. 365.