Watch List notes:

The Pavilion Collection, Commemorative Medals, George IV, the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck [now the Royal National Lifeboat Institution], proof or trial striking, in white metal, of the medal awarded in gold and silver, 1824, by William Wyon, bare head of the King l., GEORGE THE FOURTH PATRON, rev. three seamen haul a survivor onto a small boat, LET NOT THE DEEP SWALLOW ME UP, 35mm., on 5.18mm. thick flan (BHM.1246; Eimer 1174; MYB.L4; M. Jones, The Art of the Medal, 1979, 283a & b, illus.; Carlisle p.181), obverse marked and scuffed with edge bruise at 9-10 o'clock, reverse better, rare
*ex Al Rosen (Toronto, Canada) Collection, bt. July 2006
The medal's reverse is from a design by Henry Howard RA (1769–1847), a painter of portraits and historical scenes; whilst William Wyon depicts himself as one of those pulling the survivor from the water. See detailed footnote to previous lot. 593
(70-100 GBP)