Super Gold Prize Medal

The Frederick A. Lorenz Medal is an award of the Steel Founders Society of America. The society was founded in 1902 with membership limited to companies that are steel foundries. The steel Founders Society of America, states that this medal is a memorial medal first issued in 1938 to commemorate the late President of the Society Frederick A. Lorenz who served 1934-1938. The medal may be awarded annually by unanimous vote of the Society Board of Directors to an employee of a member company for outstanding service to the industry. The Society Presidents and Board Members are usually the presidents and officers of the Society's member companies. In most instances (but not always) the Lorenz Medal was awarded to retiring Society Presidents. The big boys really know how to take care of each other!
This Lorenz Medal was awarded on Feb. 12, 1942 to
Donald C.(ampbell) Bakewell. Mr. Bakewell was the Vice-President of the Blaw-Knox Co. and the retiring Society President in 1941. The medal is 10k gold, 60mm in diameter and 105.69 grams in weight and designed by Julio Kilenyi who also designed the U. S. Steel Corp. long service medals, the obverse features Frederick A. Lorenz's portrait within the legend "FREDERICK A. LORENZ. STEEL FOUNDERS SOCIETY OF AMERICA." The reverse has some factories and a steam train in the top half above the inscription "FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICE TO THE STEEL CASTING INDUSTRY AWARDED TO " and the engraved recipient's name above the Society logo and the words "INTEGRITY RESEARCH PROGRESS."
I wonder how many rare industrial super medals have survived the recent high gold prices.