The Collection of Life Saving Awards formed by The Late W.H. Fevyer

Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, 3rd type, bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘To Geoe. Bramstone, London, 2nd April 1851 (Case 1352)’, unmounted, ‘case number’ a little unclear, edge bruising, nearly very fine £200-240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Life Saving Awards formed by The Late W.H. Fevyer.

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Ref. Spink Exhibition 1985, No. 159.

‘ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF LIFE FROM FIRE - Anniversary Meeting. The names of the individuals whose promptitude, integrity, or persevering exertions in saving human life from fire during the past year had entitled them to this acknowledgement, were as follows:- ……To George Bramstone, 1 Little Woodstock Street, Marylebone, the society's bronze medallion and the sum of 10s., for his very intrepid exertions in saving a poor idiot boy from suffocation by smoke, whose rescue had been previously attempted by another person, but relinquished, owing to the great heat and smoke’ (Ref: The Morning Chronicle, 10 May 1851).