Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum, Snaresbrook, Swimming Championship Medal, Reverse: Facing Portrait, In Memoriam of Robert C. Halpin. D.L.J.P.R.N.R., 51mm diameter in silver NEF. Robert Charles Halpin captained the Brunel-designed S.S. Great Eastern and was a pioneer in laying transoceanic telegraph cables. He earned the nickname 'Mr. Cable'. (Born Wicklow 18th february 1836, Died 20th January 1894). Johann Strauss 50th Artistic work 1894, 61mm diameter in bronze by Scharff, NEF with s scratch on the obverse, Lusitania Medals 1915 (2) both EF
Bristol Humane Society award for Long Distance Swimming to Leslie Taylor Swam 1/4 Mile 1908, in case, w/m., together with Royal Life Saving Society bronze awards (4).
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