pharvey wrote:I remember this, simply because I was given the coin/medal/disc when I was a teenager and into collecting memorabilia.
It's not a medal, not a coin..... but in remembrance of something - what is it?
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Should I show you the other side.......... everything is there.
Gustaf veer alles? Looks like an Edwardian gentleman with other society people and a skeleton in the train. Is it dutch or South African? End of a war? South African War (Boer) 1899-1902. Were they only given to someone who had actually died in the war? They did a similar thing in Britain. They were quite large in Britain.
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pharvey wrote:I remember this, simply because I was given the coin/medal/disc when I was a teenager and into collecting memorabilia.
It's not a medal, not a coin..... but in remembrance of something - what is it?
MS017485_SMALL.JPG
Should I show you the other side.......... everything is there.
Gustaf veer alles? Looks like an Edwardian gentleman with other society people and a skeleton in the train. Is it dutch or South African? End of a war? South African War (Boer) 1899-1902
Very much closer to home Siani.... Issued during WWI as a hint
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things" - Yma o Hyd.
pharvey wrote:I remember this, simply because I was given the coin/medal/disc when I was a teenager and into collecting memorabilia.
It's not a medal, not a coin..... but in remembrance of something - what is it?
MS017485_SMALL.JPG
Should I show you the other side.......... everything is there.
Gustaf veer alles? Looks like an Edwardian gentleman with other society people and a skeleton in the train. Is it dutch or South African? End of a war? South African War (Boer) 1899-1902
Very much closer to home Siani.... Issued during WWI as a hint
OK..stab in the dark..they were only issued if someone had died in WW1?
In August 1915, Munich medalist and sculptor Karl X. Goetz (1875–1950), who had produced a series of propagandist and satirical medals as a running commentary on the war, privately struck a small run of medals as a limited-circulation satirical attack (fewer than 500 were struck) on the Cunard Line for trying to continue business as usual during wartime. Goetz blamed both the British government and the Cunard Line for allowing the Lusitania to sail despite the German embassy's warnings.
In August 1915, Munich medalist and sculptor Karl X. Goetz (1875–1950), who had produced a series of propagandist and satirical medals as a running commentary on the war, privately struck a small run of medals as a limited-circulation satirical attack (fewer than 500 were struck) on the Cunard Line for trying to continue business as usual during wartime. Goetz blamed both the British government and the Cunard Line for allowing the Lusitania to sail despite the German embassy's warnings.
That's the one!
The 'Lusitania', one of the great ocean liners of the early 20th century, was built at John Brown's shipyard in Clydebank, near Glasgow for the Cunard shipping line. During World War I, while on a voyage from New York to Liverpool, `Lusitania' was torpedoed and sunk off the south coast of Ireland by a German submarine. The Germans, who believed that the ship was secretly carrying American-made weapons which would be used against them, celebrated the sinking by issuing a medal.
One side depicts the sinking ship while the other shows a skeleton, representing death, selling tickets to passengers who are unaware of what is about to happen.
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"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things" - Yma o Hyd.
Piesat's post indicated fewer that 500 were struck, Pharvey. If you have an original, you may have something a serious collector or museum would pay dearly for. Pete
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I assume it is Pere Lachaise Cimetiere. It includes writer and art collector Gertrude Stein, dancer Isadora Duncan, scandalous Irish author and playwright Oscar Wilde, and Franco-Polish composer Frédéric Chopin,
20th century? of course, Jim Morrison of the Doors, Certainly the most visited grave.
Jimbob wrote:I assume it is Pere Lachaise Cimetiere. It includes writer and art collector Gertrude Stein, dancer Isadora Duncan, scandalous Irish author and playwright Oscar Wilde, and Franco-Polish composer Frédéric Chopin,
20th century? of course, Jim Morrison of the Doors, Certainly the most visited grave.
Correct, Jim Morrison was the person I was thinking about. Pete
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Source
Pete 