Period mark circa 1945-1953, pattern number 950, engraved to the underside "Scholarship Prize, 1948 / Detlev Frederick Vagts", and bearing the armorial monogram of the "John Winthrop House" of Harvard University, weighted.

6 in.

From a Significant Boston Silver Collector

Detlev Frederick Vagts (1929-2013) was an American legal scholar and a professor of International Law at Harvard Law School. He studied at Harvard College and later Harvard Law School, where he graduated Juris Doctor in 1951. After practicing at Cahill Gordon & Reindel for eight years, Vagts joined faculty at his alma mater, receiving tenure in 1962. In 1984, having been the Eli Goldston Professor of Law for four years, Detlev Vagts was appointed Bemis Professor of International Law.

Good estate condition.