Description
A group of Presentation medals to Harold Beresford Butler,C.B. (1883-1951), comprising:- The League of Nations, First Assembly, Geneva 1920, bronze medal, by Huguenin, naked girl kneels with olive branch, PAX, 50mm; A. H. Johnson, aged 80, bronze portrait medal, 1925, by Percy Metcalfe, 63mm; Professor Dr. Oscar Beuttner (1866-1929), uniface bronze memorial plaquette, 1929, 68 x 49mm; Belgium, International Labour Office, 50th Session, Brussels 1930, silver medal, St. Michael, 42mm; Belgium, bronze plaquette 1930, Visit of the International Labour Office to the International Exhibition, bust of King Albert, 90 x 61mm; Disarmament Confernce, Geneva 1932, bronze medal, by Sarki and Huguenin, 50mm; International Labour Office, 48th Meeting, Paris 1930, silver medal, by Pierre Turin, "art-deco" city panorama, 68mm; International Labour Office, 60th Session, Madrid, 1932, silver medal, by Mingo, a naked labourer, 56mm; International Labour Office, 81st Session, silver portrait medal of Tomas G. Masaryk, by O. Spaniel; Arthur Fontaine (1860-1931), First Director of the International Labour Office (1919-1931), bronze memorial medal, 1933; All Souls College, Oxford, 500th Anniversary, 1438-1938, silver medal, 58mm; together with other medallions (4), including Coronation 1902 (2) and an English copy of the Lusitania medal. Several medals cased (though several water damaged), the medals mostly very fine and better (some named), and representing important association items with a man who, for many years, was at the heart of the British political scene. (15) Harold Beresford Butler: Secretary the Ministry of Labour (1917); Assistant General Secretary Labour Commission, Peace Conference (1919), Deputy Director of the International Labour Office [Bureau International du Travail], (1920-32) and Director (1932-38), Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford (1939); Minister at H.M. Embassy, Washington (1942-46).