Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

Voyage of HMS Challenger, 1895, a cast bronze award medal, unsigned [by B. Rhind after W.S. Black], medieval knight, gauntlet at left, upright trident at right, rev. Neptune at left of framed bust of Athena, edge named (P.L. Sclater), 75mm (BHM 3487; E 1797); Netherlands, Koninklijk Zoologisch Genootschap te Amsterdam, a bronze award medal by L. Wiener, named (Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, London), 60mm [2]. First very fine, second nearly so and with minor edge knock; both in fitted case by J. Davis, Masonic Jeweller & Medalist, 34 Woodbridge St, London EC £200-300

Philip Lutley Sclater (1829-1913), lawyer and zoologist, Odiham Priory, Winchfield, Hampshire; educ. Winchester College and Christ Church, Oxford; studied law at Corpus Christi, called to the Bar in 1855 and later founded a successful law practice at 11 Hanover square, London; founder and editor of The Ibis, the journal of the British Ornithologists’ Union; secretary of the Zoological Society of London, 1859-1902. Further biographical details and a copy portrait photograph are sold with the lot