Watch List notes:

Commemorative Medals, David Livingstone (1813-1873), explorer, Centenary of Birth, The London Missionary Society copper medal, 1913, by Allan Wyon, bust of Livingstone, three-quarters right, DAVID LIVINGSTONE BORN BLANTYRE 1813 DIED ILALA 1873, rev. St Paul with attendants before an altar, 43mm. (BHM.2959; E. 1626), virtually mint state
The medal was struck on the centenary of Livingstone's birth in 1913, utilising the same obverse as that used on the Royal Geographical Society prize medal, which was presented to those natives who carried Livingstone's body from Ilala to the coast (see lot 286; cf Fearon 325.2; cf Eimer 1637). (120-150 GBP)