U.S.A., International Fine-Arts Council, Medal of Honor, a filled gold and bronze-gilt award medal by J. Kilenyi, two robed female figures on plinth, rev. naked male seated right on a hillock, at an easel, tree at left and arched building in distance, named (To Feliks Topolski for Graphic Arts, 1955), 51mm, edge stamped balfour 1/1010kgf [ten per cent 10ct gold by weight]. Some rubbing to high points of reverse, otherwise very fine, extremely rare £240-£300

Feliks Topolski (1907-89), b Warsaw, emigrated to England in 1935. During World War II he served as an official war artist and shortly before his death was elected a senior draughtsman at the Royal Academy. The late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who counted Topolski among his ‘band of brothers’ at his stag party in 1947, was one of many who commissioned works of art from him in the 1950s and 1960s, his most prolific period. He is buried at Highgate Cemetery