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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 436

The mounted group of five miniature dress medals worn by Commander F. P. O. Bridgeman, Royal Navy, who earned the rare accolade of the Portuguese Lifesaving Medal and the French Legion of Honour, besides being present at Jutland aboard H.M.S. Marlborough

1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals; France, Legion of Honour, Chevalier's breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; Portuguese Medal for Lifesaving, silver, mounted as worn, good very fine (5)


Note the manufacture of the Portuguese miniature, which is embossed with the central motifs and subsequently engraved with the surrounding text upon both obverse and reverse. See Lot xxx for the recipient's full-size awards and a biographical entry.

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