113, Lot: 415. Estimate $50. Sold for $57. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Victoria. 1837-1901. Æ Award Medal (51mm). Royal Humane Society. Award instituted 1774. Eros with extinguished torch / Wreath with engraved incription dedicated to Thomas Allen, 19 September 1846. Eimer 1758. VF, edge bumps and field marks, mount removed from edge.

The medal is still being awarded, to those who risk their own lives to save another.