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Rare Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Socierty Medal

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The Marine Medal in silver metal, being frosted and having been glazed. The obverse with the figure of a sailor kneeling on a fragment of a wreck rescuing a child and mother with the inscription "Lord Save Us: We Perish" and "Wyon, R.A." William Wyon (1795-1851) was the chief engvraver at the Royal Mint.The reverse has a wreath of oak branches surmounted by a cormorant with an olive branch in its beak with the inscription "Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society 1839".The Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society makes honorary awards of medals, parchments, certificates and letters of commendation to people who voluntarily put their own lives or safety at risk by saving or attempting to save other people who are in danger in cases of shipwreck, drowning, fire or any other hazards.. 8"H x 2.125" Dia, Circa - 1839.

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