1910 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY ROBERT EDWIN PEARY 70mm MEDAL

Unsigned but by Kathleen Scott. A bronze example of the medal awarded in gold by the Royal Geographical Society, to Robert Edwin Peary.

Obverse with bust of Peary, reverse with eagle hovering over the north polar regions. Extremely Fine and extremely rare. Kathleen Scott was the widow of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and had sculpted his statue in Waterloo Place, London. The striking of the medals was organised by the Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company, one in gold for Peary, one in silver for his companion, Captain Bartlett, presented on 4 May 1910, and an unrecorded number in bronze.

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