France, Georges Dieulafoy, 1911, a bronze plaque by F.-C.-V. de Vernon, bust left, rev. view of Nôtre Dame, medical symbols below, 70 x 50mm (PBE 989; Storer –; cf. DNW 57, 1332). Black patina, very fine (£40-60)

Georges Dieulafoy (1839-1911), professor of medicine at the Hotel-Dieu, wrote a manual on pathology and was elected president of the Académie de Médecine in 1910