Lot Archive

Lot

№ 1475

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14 December 2004

Hammer Price:
£130

United States of America, The Great Men of Medicine, a collection of 50 bronze medals by A. Belskie for the Medallic Art Co, issued by Presidential Art Medals, all 45mm [50]. As struck; in card boxes of issue, with biographical leaflet relating to each medal (£100-150)

Abram Belskie (1907-89), sculptor and humanitarian, was born in London and grew up in Glasgow. He was a medical sculptor for the New York Medical College. The Belskie Museum of Art and Science in Closter, New Jersey, opened in 1994, whilst a set of these medals has been displayed recently at the Lane library, Stanford University