Heroic sea rescue recognised

An atypical entry to the March 4-9 sale at the Harwich antiquities specialist TimeLine is this gold medal struck in Philadelphia following the sinking of American steamship Casper, on December 23, 1928.

As the inscription suggests, it was awarded to A Mölder, a seaman of the Estonian ship Meteor, in …

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