Mines Rescue Service Pin National Coal Board Issued c1957 to F Smith Silverdale for Sale

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Mines Rescue Service Pin National Coal Board Issued c1957 to F Smith Silverdale For Sale

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Mines Rescue Service Pin National Coal Board Issued c1957 to F Smith Silverdale:
$56.53

Badge issued to men trained by the National Coal Board in mines rescue skills. The earlier issued types of these badges have the name of the recipient stamped on their reverses, often also with the name of the pit at which they served. This pin bears the name F Smith, Silverdale. The badge is chromium plated with blue enamel surround, the centre displaying in relief a miner wearing hard hat and equipped with breathing apparatus, the reverse with maker's details Thomas Fattorini Regent St Birmingham. Very good condition, complete with original crescent shape buttonhole fitting, enamel intact.

Silverdale Colliery was also known locally as Kent's Lane. The first shafts were sunk in the 1830s and the colliery initially mined ironstone as well as coal. The colliery was completely rebuilt during the 1970s when three new drifts were sunk to exploit new reserves in the Keele area. Production increased and the pit mined over one million tonnes annually but was closed in 1998, the last deep mine in North Staffordshire to close.

Thomas Fattorini Ltd is a manufacturing jeweller and designer-maker of awards, trophies, ceremonial swords, civic insignia, medals and name badges. The company is located on three sites in Manchester, Birmingham and London with their head office in Skipton, North Yorkshire.

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