Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

Engineering, British Association of Gas Managers, President’s Prize, 1873, a frosted silver award medal by Baddeley Bros, seated figure, industrial landscape behind, rev. wreath, edge ring named (Awarded to Vivian B. Lewes, F.I.C., F.C.S, 1892, Wm. A. Valon President), 57mm. Better than extremely fine, rare; set in a silver ring and glazed £80-100

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

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Professor Vivian Byam Lewes (1852-1915), Royal Naval College, Greenwich, an expert on liquid and gaseous fuels who lived at Wraysbury, Bucks, died on 23 October 1915 of pneumonia at Mold, Flintshire, where he was to deliver one of a series of Gilchrist lectures on explosives. He had contributed several valuable and groundbreaking papers on the subject to the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Arts