DESCRIPTION:
Medal - Laetare Medal, heavy 14K gold with matching 14K gold pin, 43mm, presented in 2005 by the University of Notre Dame to Joseph E. Murray, M.D., comes as pictured with a felt stand mounted on a wooden base within a glass dome. Gross weight of 14K gold medal and 14K gold pin 60.0 dwt (93.3 g). An elegant and beautiful piece, the Laetare Medal is a prestigious award given annually by the University of Notre Dame to a Catholic "whose genius has ennobled the arts and sciences, illustrated the ideals of the church and enriched the heritage of humanity." The Laetare Medal was first presented in 1883 and its recipients in the years since have included doctors, generals, authors, religious figures, musicians, and politicians with two of particular note being both of the Catholic Presidents of the United States, John F. Kennedy and Joe Biden. The presently offered example was awarded to Joseph E. Murray, M.D., an American plastic surgeon who performed the first successful human kidney transplant on December 23, 1954. In the decades to follow this historic accomplishment, Murray was to continue advancing the field of transplantation and in 1990 was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and in 2005 was honored with the present Laetare Medal.
CONDITION:
Medal shows no wear, few pinpoint edge nicks at upper-left; wooden base with few scuffs to its inner portion; glass dome excellent.
ESTIMATE:
$3600
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$5400
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