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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 1256

(x) A gold American life-saving Medal awarded to A. E. Leighton, S.S. Ivydene, for the rescue of the Gleneida in 1899

the obverse bearing the profile of Liberty, facing left, the legend 'Presented by the President of the United States' around, the reverse inscribed: 'To A. E. Leighton, Second Officer of the British S.S. "Ivydene" in recognition of his heroic services in effecting the rescue of the Captain and Crew of the American bark "Gleneida" abandoned at sea November 29, 1899.', 36mm, gold, 40.15 grams, fitted with a silver-gilt straight bar suspension embossed with the motto 'E Pluribus Unum', extremely fine

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