Life Saving Medals

1931 Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Life Saving Medal. Bronze. About Uncirculated.

39 mm. Obv: House of Succour with rescuers setting out to capsized ship, peripheral inscriptions THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS above, INSTITUTED 1783 INCORPORATED 1791 below. Rev: Inscriptions HONOR THE REWARD OF MERIT above and COURAGE AND PERSEVERANCE below central engraving to recipient TO / ROY BERGER / FOR BRAVERY / IN SAVING A LIFE / HAMPTON BEACH / AUG 25, 1931. Looped and suspended from an uninscribed pinback hanger with a scallop shell design on the front.

Estimate: 200