Australian Historical Medals

Lot 810    SESSION 3 (2.30pm Tues 27 July)    Australian Historical Medals

Estimate $2,500
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UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, New South Wales, 1906, in silver (42mm) by Amor, inscribed on reverse 'Senior / Public Examination / 1906 / Conic Sections / Arthur Bache Walkom'; University of Sydney, 1920, in bronze (52.5mm) by A.Wyon, inscribed on reverse 'B.Sc.Examination 1910 / Geology / and Mineralogy / Arthur Bache Walkom'; University of Sydney, 1918, in silver (52.5mm) by A.Wyon, inscribed on reverse 'D.SC / Examination / 1918 / Geology / Arthur Bache Walkom'; Jubilee Medal (GVR) 1935, with miniature medal; Coronation Medal (GVIR) 1937, with miniature medal; Royal Society of New South Wales, W.B.Clarke Medal, 1948, in bronze (55mm) by J.S.& A.B.Wyon, inscribed around edge 'Arthur Bache Walkom D.Sc.1948'; Fifty Years Commonwealth of Australia, 1951, medalet in bronze (31mm) (C.1951/6); Jubilee of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1951, in oxidised silver (57.5mm) by Amor, inscribed on reverse 'Dr Arthur B. Walkom' (C.1951/7); Coronation Medal (EIIR) 1953, with miniature medal; Royal Society of New South Wales, 1953 in bronze (76mm) inscribed on reverse 'For Organization of Science in Australia / and / for / Researches in / Palaeobotany', inscribed around edge 'Arthur Bache Walkom D.Sc. 1953'; Australian and New Zealand Association For the Advancement of Science, 1970, in silver (70mm) by Andor Meszaros, inscribed around edge 'Arthur Bache Walkom Port Moresby'; three Masonic lodge jewels, Dr Arthur Bache Walkom. All medals with cases of issue. Extremely fine - nearly FDC. (16)

Arthur Bache Walkom D.Sc. (1889-1976), Director of Australian Museum, Sydney, 1940-1954. He was one of the great pioneering figures in Australian fossil botany. Together with photograph, copy of the Linnean Society of New South Wales - Historical Notes of its first fifty years 1874-1925, type written biographical details.