Let's see your exonumia!

Indeed. Marr started out at Colt arms as an engraver before venturing into several partnerships, including one with Mossin. After the Civil War a lot of his engravings were woodcuts for books and publications rather than die-sinking.

You can read more about Marr here, as well as see examples of some of his woodcuts, in a series of articles about him:

http://www.novanumismatics.com/category/engraving/

 

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Beautiful piece , the work is 1st rate .

 

Instead of posting your exonumia in one thread, post it in single threads in coin chat. We may prove to the powers that be, we need a separate section.

 

Thanks for the link Cheetah...very interesting.

Bruce

 

Cheetah is too much under appreciated on these boards but much appreciated in this thread.......

 

Thanks Ken. Appreciate the kind words.

 

You are most deserving.........

 

Flail as you may, you are most deserving my friend.......

 

Just a couple I had laying around

 

I like the J.H.Cline storecard dwhiz. Did you get it from him at a show or elsewhere? I see him at coin shows all the time so I'll have to ask him if he has one to give me. Thanks for the pic.

Bruce

 

I got one from him at the ANA a few years ago.

nice guy

 

Thanks Frank...I'll stop by his table at the June show in Baltimore.

Bruce

 

]Got it at show forget which one it either a FUN or one in Philadelphia

 

DEAL! I agree, and have a great example for openers.

 

Dang it! You guys had to go and get me more interested in Mint Medals. Here are two that arrived today........

The first is a presidential medal designed by John R. Sinnock. Herbert Hoover was not the most beloved president but I picked up this piece because of the carefully crafted reverse.......



The medal measures approximately 70MM across in is bronze in nature.

Next, something that I remember as a young lad. Charles Lindbergh was much admired by my father and I remember this medal proudly displayed in a glass case next to a gold pocket watch that my grandfather had owned. Sadly, I don't recall what happened to the two objects but I'm now very proud to have in my possession my very own example of a Laura Gardin Fraser masterpiece. The eagle on the reverse, alone and flying eastward, with the setting sun in the background and and a field of stars above is indeed breathtaking......

 

3" Garfield mint medal, designed by Charles E. Barber, arrived today. No paper work or box, just a bubble wrapped specimen. Not much worse for the wear though and the cost was quite reasonable. Way cheaper than what I would have paid had the medal been available at the mint......

 

Interesting....assassinated in July, died in September... seems odd to have those dates different and still have the work "assassinated" used...

Nice medal!!!

 

That is curious. I've always associated the word with murder, rather than injury, although we use it that way occasionally when not referring to the physical, ie, to assassinate someone's character.

I thinks it's a clumsy use of the word, but perhaps saying he was shot in July and died September is too coarse for a medal.

 

Garfield died because of the gunshot from the assassin in July. He died due to infection from the gunshot. At the time medical care was not decent.