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BRITISH EDUCATIONAL AWARD MEDALS FROM THE COLLECTION FORMED BY THE LATE T.H. WATTS
BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, SOMERSET, Bath, The Bath Society, an engraved silver Life Saving medal by C. Reily and G. Storer, crest of a nag's head in coronet and mural crown, hoc pretium cive servato, named (T.E.M. Marsh, Ætatis xvi), rev. socs. bath in resuscitat inter mortuorum around date vii aug mdcccxxxiv, hallmarked London 1834, 48mm, 22.34g. Very fine and toned, very rare and worthy of further research; with suspension loop £150-200
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In the autumn of 1777 22 gentlemen met in the city of Bath to form a society 'for the encouragement of 'Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce and the Fine Arts' in the counties of Somerset, Wiltshire, Gloucester, Dorset, and the city and county of Bristol. It was known simply as 'The Society' or the 'Bath Society'. In 1790, the title of the Society was altered to 'The Bath and West of England Society'. The enlarged motto hoc pretivm cive servato tvlit [He has obtained this prize for having saved the life of a citizen] was used by the Royal Humane Society. T.E.M. Marsh learned his engineering skills from Isambard Kingdom Brunel and is noted as earning £300 per annum while working for Brunel as an assistant engineer in 1849. Marsh published a report on the collapse of the the Widcombe Bridge, a wooden archway over the river Avon in Bath, which collapsed under the weight of a crowd rushing to see the Bath & West of England Agricultural Society's centenary show on 6 June 1877. Upwards of 100 people were thrown 40 feet into the river; there were some 12 fatalities and over 50 injured. Marsh's single-span wrought iron replacement opened later the same year and was fully restored in 2013
BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, SOMERSET, Bath, The Bath Society, an engraved silver Life Saving medal by C. Reily and G. Storer, crest of a nag's head in coronet and mural crown, hoc pretium cive servato, named (T.E.M. Marsh, Ætatis xvi), rev. socs. bath in resuscitat inter mortuorum around date vii aug mdcccxxxiv, hallmarked London 1834, 48mm, 22.34g. Very fine and toned, very rare and worthy of further research; with suspension loop £150-200
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In the autumn of 1777 22 gentlemen met in the city of Bath to form a society 'for the encouragement of 'Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce and the Fine Arts' in the counties of Somerset, Wiltshire, Gloucester, Dorset, and the city and county of Bristol. It was known simply as 'The Society' or the 'Bath Society'. In 1790, the title of the Society was altered to 'The Bath and West of England Society'. The enlarged motto hoc pretivm cive servato tvlit [He has obtained this prize for having saved the life of a citizen] was used by the Royal Humane Society. T.E.M. Marsh learned his engineering skills from Isambard Kingdom Brunel and is noted as earning £300 per annum while working for Brunel as an assistant engineer in 1849. Marsh published a report on the collapse of the the Widcombe Bridge, a wooden archway over the river Avon in Bath, which collapsed under the weight of a crowd rushing to see the Bath & West of England Agricultural Society's centenary show on 6 June 1877. Upwards of 100 people were thrown 40 feet into the river; there were some 12 fatalities and over 50 injured. Marsh's single-span wrought iron replacement opened later the same year and was fully restored in 2013