Sporting & General Medals, Badges & Awards - Royal Hu
Lot 3171 SESSION 11 (2.30PM WEDNESDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER) Sporting & General Medals, Badges & Awards - Royal Huma
Estimate $500
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SOLD $300
ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA, Instd. A.D. 1874, struck in bronze (38mm), by C.Turner D. J.Hogarth F. (Sydney), reverse inscribed 'Van Mollier/30th Decr./1886'. Remnants of glue on obverse, otherwise very fine.
Van Mollier, aged 35 years, a lumper and seaman, saved Robert Wilson (aged seven and a-half years) from drowning at the Railway wharf, Wellington, on the 30th December 1886. Awarded a bronze medal.
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