Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel NPG 6195

Photograph © National Portrait Gallery, London

by Paul Vincze

This medal was produced to mark Lord Samuel's 90th birthday. It is inscribed, 'HERBERT VISCOUNT SAMUEL O.M.' (Order of Merit, an honour bestowed on Samuel in 1958). The reverse shows a figure, perhaps of Truth, writing in a book and holding a beacon, with the inscription, 'AMICVS SOCRATES SED MAGIS AMICA VERITAS' (Socrates is my friend but a greater friend is truth), from Roger Bacon's Opus Majus, and indirectly from Aristotle. Vincze had previously portrayed Lord Samuel in a portrait plaque exhibited in 1943.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.