Medals & Coins, Arms & Armour - 03 Jun 2025

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Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 1852, a silver prize medal by L. C. Wyon, Galen and Avicenna

£50 - £150 £189

Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 1852, a silver prize medal by L. C. Wyon, Galen and Avicenna supporting a tablet with the motto 'HABENDA RATIO VALETUDINIS', rev. text in seven lines within a wreath, edged impressed to Clement John Wain (CLEMENT JOHN WAIN MATERIA MEDICA. SESSION 1888-89.), 70 mm (E 1472), extremely fine or better and attractively toned; with an elaborate gilt-gesso and velvet fitted glazed presentation frame.



(70 mm)

Registered as Chemist & Druggist on 22 Feb 1889. Awarded Materia Medica Silver Medal in 1890. Alderman and prominent businessman in Newcastle for many years. Offered with copy research.

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