British and World Historical Medals

France, Centenaire de la Société Medico-Chirurgicale, 1905, a silver award plaque by P.-A. Morlon, diptych, symbolic figures of Surgery preparing to operate on a patient at left, Medicine consoling the mother of a small child at right, rev. female holding branch plucked from the Tree of Life, legend below in three lines, unnamed, 70 x 91mm (PBE 611; BDM IV, 152; cf. Simmons FPL 10, 542). Surfaces bright and hairlined from cleaning, otherwise better than very fine, rare in silver £80-100