Royal Humane Society Medal, Type 2, 1844 Archive Five years later

Five years later

a very fine example having an engraved quill back edge

Kurt Locknitz as an assistant

April/June 1983

as part of the Home Fleet at Devonport

Royal Humane Society Medal, Type 2, 1844 Archive Five years laterSilver, large successful type 2 by Pistrucci, engraved "HAMMOND MAXTED. VIT. OB. SERV. D. D. SOC. REG. HVM. 21. SEPT. 1844" on the reverse, 51 mm, missing suspension, minor contact marks, very fine. Footnote: On September 21, 1844, about seven o'clock in the evening, a young man was found trapped clinging to a rock, having been hemmed in by the sea opposite Cliff Crescent in Margate, East Kent, England. Two seperate boats were launched at different