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Auction: 11007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 195

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Medal, silver, type 2 1862-1903, obverse: head of Queen Victoria with chaple of oak leaves facing left (Mr. William Todd. Voted 14th July. 1898.), engraved in mixed styles, good very fine, with uniface ´dolphin´ suspension Estimate £ 400-500 William Todd, Coxswain, Gorelston No. 2 Lifeboat, citation reads, ´Awarded on Mr. Todd´s resignation from the post of Coxswain. Services were rendered to the smack Sir John Astley (1885), the dandy Morning Star (1888), the trawler Favourite and the dandy Belinda (1890), the yawl Kate (1891), the dandy Hiram (1893), the dandy Fraternité (1894), the dandy Coquette (1895) and the smack Follow (1897)´. Provenance: J.B. Hayward Collection, November 1995

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