Stack's Bowers Galleries

June 2021 Auction  –  11 - 12 June 2021

Stack's Bowers Galleries, June 2021 Auction

Live Sessions: US Coins

Part 1: Fr, 11.06.2021, from 12:00 AM CEST
Part 2: Fr, 11.06.2021, from 11:00 PM CEST
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Description

Life Saving Medals

1904 Volunteer Life Saving Corps, New York State Branch Three-Piece Hanging Badge. Sterling Silver. Extremely Fine.

31 mm x 80 mm. This intricate badge is loaded with turn of the century charm featuring a pinback hanger surmounted by a spread wing eagle with the name of the recipient, JOHN H. BRENNAN, above a rescue scene, inscriptions PRESENTED TO above and FOR SAVING FROM DROWNING below the scene, the back stamped STERLING. Suspended from that is a figural piece of a rescue team in a rowboat attending to a victim. The lowest part of the badge is comprised of the V.L.S.C. logo with the Seal of New York at its center, the back inscribed EAST RIVER N.Y. / AUGUST 20, 1904 with the word STERLING stamped at the bottom.

Estimate: 300

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Price realized 180 USD
Starting price 1 USD
Estimate 300 USD
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