Watch List notes:

Life Saving Interest: (the Folkestone, Hythe and Sandgate medal), copper Jubilee medal, 1887, by Sir Alfred Gilbert, for Heming & Co. (struck by Messres John Pinches), veiled bust r., wearing 'the small diamond crown', VICTORIA. D.G. BRITT. REG. ET. IND. IMP., signed with monogram on truncation, rev. an olive wreath (leaving space in centre for naming), 46.5mm. (BHM.3251, [R2], not attribued to Gilbert; W&E.2180; MBJP. p.125, not attribued to Gilbert and also suggested as 1897 Jubilee medal; BDM.II,475; VII, 437, both times misattributed; Attwood, Artistic Circles, Fig. 4), good extremely fine and a very rare medal by the renowned sculptor
The medal seems to have been made as an 'off the shelf' Jubilee medal, but it is best remembered in the numismatic world as a life saving medal
(250-350 GBP)