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The E-Sylum: Volume 11, Number 9, March 2, 2008, Article 13 DICK JOHNSON ON COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S LOUBAT MEDAL Dick Johnson writes: "The Loubat Medal was indeed administered by Columbia University. Columbia administered so many awards they became very sophisticated in medal award programs. To name a few: The Pulitzer Medal, of course, (separate medals for journalism, letters, music), the Barnard Medal (physical) or astronomy sciences), Butler Medal (philosophy or education, Maria Cabot Medal (journalism), Charles Frederick Chandler Medal (chemistry), James Furman Kemp Medal (geology), Ambrose Monell Medal (mineral technology), Columbia University Medal (public service -- Columbia employees exempt!), the Vetlesen Medal (earth science) and the little known K.C. Li Medal (for new applications of tungsten). "Columbia University was such an important client of Medallic Art Company (when I first worked there in New York City and before the distraction of the American bicentennial) that the firm's vice president himself called on the Columbia Awards Office. The firm made most of their medallic awards. Even when the plant moved to Danbury Connecticut the vice president maintained an office in New York City just to serve such clients as Columbia. "Early on when I was researching medal prospects I discovered the somewhat dormant Loubat Medal and asked the VP about it. As best as I recall, the dormancy was due to a lack of recommendations for the award. "The most recent awards of the Loubat medal I could find were for James Randall's book 'Lincoln the President--Midstream' published 1952 and Milford Mathews' book 'A Dictionary of Americanisms' 1951. "The medal bore a portrait of Joseph Florimond duc de Loubat and was struck in France. It was created in 1910 by medallist Frederic Charles Victor de Vernon. Incidentally, Joseph Levine sold one in his 66th auction sale (November 13, 1999, lot 1398) where someone got a terrific bargain for $27 plus 10 percent buyer's fee." [The award is "in recognition of the best works printed in the English language on the history, geography, archaeology, ethnology, philology, or numismatics of North America." Numismatics is the reason for our interest in the award. Perhaps the Numismatic Bibliomania Society (NBS), Numismatic Literary Guild (NLG), American Numismatic Association (ANA) or American Numismatic Society (ANS) will consider nominating a work on North American numismatics for a future Loubat prize. -Editor] ON COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S LOUBAT PRIZE esylum_v11n08a09.html Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@coinlibrary.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum | |
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