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Auction: 5005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 317

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society Small Silver Medal, 38mm. (Fredk. Mack. For Having Jumped Into The Mersey At Runcorn & Rescued A Boy. Augt. 10 1888), minor edge bruising, therefore nearly extremely fine, with its silver riband buckle Estimate £ 100-120 ´A Silver Medal, and 20 shillings, for damage to watch and other expenses, to Frederick Mack, telegraph clerk, for having, with considerable difficulty, rescued a boy who had fallen into the river gut, on the 10th instant, at Runcorn, and was being swiftly carried away by the ebb tide.´ (50th Annual Report of the Committee of the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society 1889 refers). Provenance Glendining´s May 1980

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