Sporting & General Medals, Badges & Awards - Fire Bri
Lot 1538 SESSION 5 (9.30AM TUESDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER) Sporting & General Medals, Badges & Awards - Fire Briga
Estimate $3,000
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UNITED FIRE BRIGADES ASSOCIATION, medal "For Valour", c1880, handcrafted in silver (42x42mm), by F.W.C. (Frederick W.Collins, Napier), unawarded; 25 Years Service Star, in gold (18ct, tot wt 15.9g, 40mm), by F.W.C. (O&D.115), reverse inscribed 'Presented to/-'. Extremely fine and excessively rare, the first toned. (2)
Probably prototypes. Only three of the first medal ever awarded.
With research.
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