Baldwin's of St. James's
Auction 58 27 Apr 2021
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Commemorative Medals, Twentieth Century portraits (3): Richard Phené Spiers (1838-1916), architect, bronze plaquette, 1905, by Edouard Lanteri (1848-1917), bust l., rev. an Ionic column before a view of the Acropolis, THE GREATEST TRVST ..., 79 x 59mm. (BHM.3921; Eimer 1884; Eidlitz 963), dark patina, extremely fine; Sir Robert Muir (1864-1959), pioneering Scottish immunologist, uniface bronze medal, undated, c. 1930, by George Henry Paulin, A.R.S.A. (1888-1962), 70mm., in case of issue, mint state, rare; John Pinches (1825-1905), medallist, death 1905, small oval bronze medal, 1905, by G. W. de Saulles, bust r., rev. LABORARE EST ORARE, 32 x 25mm. (BHM.3920; Eimer 1885), extremely fine (3)
*ex Mrs Irene "Neddy" Allen stock
The B.M.J. for January 1931 records that "On the afternoon of Tuesday, January 20th, in the Randolph Hall of the University of Glasgow, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, President of the Royal Society, presented to Professor Robert Muir, M.D., F.R.S., on behalf of the subscribers, his portrait in oils by G. Fiddes Watt, R.S.A., and to the University a bust by G. H. Paulin, A.R.S.A....". The medal would seem to date from the same time.
*ex Mrs Irene "Neddy" Allen stock
The B.M.J. for January 1931 records that "On the afternoon of Tuesday, January 20th, in the Randolph Hall of the University of Glasgow, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, President of the Royal Society, presented to Professor Robert Muir, M.D., F.R.S., on behalf of the subscribers, his portrait in oils by G. Fiddes Watt, R.S.A., and to the University a bust by G. H. Paulin, A.R.S.A....". The medal would seem to date from the same time.