Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

British Historical Medals, The Worshipful [the] Russia Company, Assistant’s badge, in silver, arms of the Muscovy company, rev. named (Robert Alexander Douglas Fleming, Elected 1st March 1893), 41mm. Minor surface marks, otherwise very fine and extremely rare; with clip and ring for suspension (£400-500)

Robert Alexander Douglas Fleming (1845-1933), financier from Dundee, founded the Scottish American Investment Trust in 1873, which metamorphosed into Robert Fleming & Co, the London-based merchant bank sold to Chase Manhattan Bank for over $7 billion in 2000