Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

Forestry, International Forestry Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1884, a silver award medal, unsigned [by J. Crichton, Edinburgh], distant cityscape, rev. wreath, named (Awarded to Sir Geo. Birdwood, C.S.I., India, for Botanical Drawings of Trees by Native Artists), 45mm (Brodie 295). Some light scuffing and hairlines, otherwise good very fine, scarce £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, British Medals from the Collection of James Spencer.

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Sir George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood, KCIE, MD (1832-1917), Anglo-Indian naturalist and writer; educ. Plymouth Grammar School and Edinburgh University; Bombay Medical Service 1854; professor at Grant Medical College, Bombay; returned to England 1868; employed at the India Office, 1871-1902, where he published important volumes on Indian art and the East India Co. Sold with further biographical detail