British and World Historical Medals

Royal Scottish Academy, a bronze award medal by B. Wyon after J.N. Paton, Genius kneeling, supporting Pegasus and naked flame on platform, rev. laurel branch on tripod, edge named (Alexander Proudfoot, Elected 1920), 68mm (BHM 1884; E 1323; Brodie 585; cf. DNW M2, 2315); Royal Technical College, Glasgow, Beilby Medal for Technical Chemistry, by J. Pinches, in copper, 64mm; together with Proudfoot’s scroll of appointment and a second, 1932, as an Academician [4]. Extremely fine £100-200

Alexander Proudfoot (1878-1957), born in Liverpool, served in the Artists' Rifles in the First World War. He was responsible for the War Memorial in Glasgow Cathedral and several other memorials and the cataloguer believes that Proudfoot sculpted the bust of Beilby on the second medal in the lot