ldhair What an awesome Gettysburg Address Plaque! I found one that had a hammer price on Sunday, June 25, 2017 of $1300.00 here at Leonard Auction for you. https://www.leonardauction.com/231/144147/
1962 Benjamin Franklin Medallic Art Co Declaration Signers Bronze Medal 1.25 in. diameter One of the more famous signers of The Declaration of Independence. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions.
I have very few US exonumia, but here's one I acquired George Washington - A Call to Arms1775-1975 - Freedoms Foundation
1888 Future King and Queen of Great Britain & Ireland Edward and Alexandra silver wedding jubilee medal 1/2 inch brass Made in Germany Odd that this is marked "Made in Germany" as all the others I have seen are not marked as such. A tiny medal with some light wear. Once widowed, Queen Victoria effectively withdrew from public life. Shortly after Prince Albert's death, she arranged for Edward to embark on an extensive tour of the Middle East, visiting Egypt, Jerusalem, Damascus, Beirut and Constantinople.The British Government wanted Edward to secure the friendship of Egypt's ruler, Said Pasha, to prevent French control of the Suez Canal if the Ottoman Empire collapsed. It was the first royal tour on which an official photographer, Francis Bedford, was in attendance. As soon as Edward returned to Britain, preparations were made for his engagement, which was sealed at Laeken in Belgium on 9 September 1862.Edward married Alexandra at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on 10 March 1863. He was 21; she was 18. 1888 Future King and Queen of Great Britain & Ireland Edward and Alexandra silver wedding jubilee medal 1/2 inch brass This is not marked "Made in Germany" The other I have is marked as such. A tiny medal with some light wear.
1940's Red Goose Shoes Premium Money Set These tokens were also made in fiber, in different colors, probably during the World War II when metals were being used in the war effort. Here is a nice set, which I think is complete that either preceded the war or minted shortly afterwards or both but no later than 1950. I have my doubts as to the trade in value being equal in cents for the denominations of these tokens. When these were made, the amount these state would be a lot of money if equal in trade for cash. Perhaps one would get so much off the price of shoes for so many "points" instead. They may have been redeemable in discount or used as play money. I am unsure? "The Red Goose Shoe Company of St. Louis, Missouri, began selling shoes to pioneer families headed west in 1869. The company's name was originally Gieseke-D'Oench-Hayes, after its founders, but when the company became advertising conscious in the early 1900s, they changed the name. Gieseke is German slang for "goose" so the goose image came naturally. The red color came later when, during the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, some stock boys painted the goose on the cartons red. The head of the company liked the idea, and so Red Goose Shoes was trademarked in 1906. In 1911, the Roberts, Johnson & Rand Shoe Company merged with the Peters Shoe Company to form the International Shoe Company in St. Louis. Red Goose was swallowed up by the International Shoe in the first half of the 20th Century. International Shoe dropped Red Goose. And, by 1953, International Shoe Company changed its name to Interco and bought Florsheim Shoes."
1936 Texas Centennial Souvenir Medal Set More Shoes There are different accounts of the origins of the “Poll Parrot” shoe brand. In one version, the brand was named after a certain “Paul Parrott”, who had been manufacturing shoes under the Pol Parrot name in St. Louis since 1922, and had been bought out by International Shoe Company in 1928. Ted Hake, author of Hake’s Guide to Advertising Collectibles, © 1992, Wallace Homestead Book Company, tells the story of how the Poll-Parrot Shoe Brand name was conceived. It seems the owner of the original Parrot Shoe Company, Paul Parrot, kept a pet parrot in his store. The bird inspired a salesman to suggest the name Poll-Parrot Shoes as a brand name. Obviously Paul Parrot agreed and the name was copyrighted in 1925. According to Old Time Radio Researchers, Paul Parrot sold his shoe business to the International Shoe Company that already had the Red Goose and Weatherbird Shoes. The company sold men’s women’s and children’s shoes and sponsored the “Cruise of the Poll-Parrot” a syndicated children’s serial in 1937. Howdy Doody teamed up with Poll-Parrot Shoes advertising. The colorful red, green and gold parrot with the words “Poll-Parrot Shoes for Boys and Girls”, became a popular logo throughout the 1930s 40s, and 50s. The shoe stores that sold the Poll-Parrot Shoes often had painted plaster or chalk- ware displays of the parrot figures in the stores. Long ago, before sneakers were everyday footwear there were Buster Browns and numerous other brands. All cleverly advertised in magazines for Mom to see and there were small promotional toys like "clickers", "top spinners" whistles and banks. Stuff you might see in your teachers "confiscated toys" desk drawer for sure! While there are a number of other medals out there advertising children's shoes, I have found three advertised on and sharing this 1936 Texas Centennial medal reverse. They are Weather-Bird Shoes, Red Goose Shoes and Poll-Parrot Shoes. I think that would be considered a complete 1936 Texas Centennial set, having all three.
Your post reminded me of this one I have GB King George VI Coronation Medal 1937 - a commemorative medal, instituted to celebrate the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth which took place on 12th May, 1937. It was also the first occasion on which the Coronation Service had been broadcast. Initialed 'PM' on both sides
1930 Massachusetts Bay Tercentenary Medal John Hull Pine Tree Shilling The Bourne Historical Society sold the medals to raise funds for the Trading Post Endowment Fund. The original Plymouth Colony Aptucxet Trading Post was built in 1627. The historical society maintained a replica of the trading post. Pond believes these were the first souvenirs struck for the tercentenary. Pond 15 White Metal with oxidized silver finish, 30 mm. Whitehead and Hoag Co. 20,000 struck The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691) was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century around the Massachusetts Bay, the northernmost of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The dowry is the transfer of parental property to a daughter at her marriage rather than at the owner's death. A dowry establishes a type of conjugal fund, the nature of which may vary widely. This fund may provide an element of financial security in widowhood or against a negligent husband, and may eventually go to provide for her children. Dowries may also go toward establishing a marital household, and therefore might include furnishings such as linens and furniture. The dowry was a custom brought to the United States by colonists from England and elsewhere in Europe. One legend tells how John Hull, the Master of the Mint in Boston and a wealthy man, determined the dowry for his daughter Hannah's marriage to Samuel Sewall. Hull is said to have set his 18-year-old daughter onto one side of the large scales in his warehouse. He piled shillings into the other side of the scale until he reached her weight in silver, and that was her dowry.
1962 Civil War Centennial Commission Lee and Grant Medallic Art Co Bronze 2.5 inch diameter Joseph Renier’s medal, commissioned by the Civil War Centennial Commission, memorializes the four years of hostilities between North and South one hundred years before. It depicts Confederate general Robert E. Lee, who surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant, also shown here, at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, in 1865. “Let Us Have Peace” became Grant’s presidential campaign slogan in 1868. At Appomattox, Lee released his officers and soldiers, bidding them return home with “a consciousness of duty faithfully performed.” 1963 Battle of Gettysburg - High Water Mark Medallic Art Co Bronze 2.5 inch diameter Pickett's Charge was an infantry assault ordered by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee against Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's Union positions on July 3, 1863, the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg in the state of Pennsylvania during the American Civil War. The charge is named after Maj. Gen. George Pickett, one of three Confederate generals who led the assault that involved about 12,500 CSA soldiers in nine infantry brigades as they advanced over open fields for three-quarters of a mile under heavy Union artillery and rifle fire. Although some Confederates were able to breach the low stone wall that shielded many of the Union defenders, they could not maintain their hold and were repelled with over 50% casualties, a decisive defeat that ended the three-day battle and Lee's campaign into Pennsylvania. The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in 1863 from July 1 and ceased on July 3rd with General Lee's retreat on July 4th. The farthest advance of Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Armistead's brigade of Maj. Gen. George Pickett's division is referred to as the "High-water mark of the Confederacy" being the furthest point North that the South would advance during the Civil War. After Gettysburg, Lee's army conducted no more strategic offensives. Union casualties were 23,055 (3,155 killed, 14,531 wounded, 5,369 captured or missing) Maj. Gen. George Meade, (Commanding) USA Confederate casualties were 23,231 (4,708 killed, 12,693 wounded, 5,830 captured or missing) Gen. Robert E. Lee, (Commanding) CSA
Neat medal dwhiz. I have had some time there editing that post above yours. I think I got it fixed. LOL
1963 Mark Twain NYU HOF bronze medal Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn are shown on this 1963 issue from The New York University ~ Hall of Fame ~ Medallic Art Co. medals. Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is the son of the town's vagrant drunkard, "Pap" Finn. Sleeping on doorsteps when the weather is fair, in empty hogsheads during storms, and living off of what he receives from others. Huck lives the life of a destitute vagabond. Mark Twain metaphorically names him "the juvenile pariah of the village" and describes Huck as "idle, and lawless, and vulgar, and bad", qualities for which he was admired by all the children in the village, although their mothers "cordially hated and dreaded" him. Huck is an archetypal innocent, able to discover the "right" thing to do despite the prevailing theology and prejudiced mentality of the South of that era. The best example of this is his decision to help Jim escape slavery, even though he believes he will go to hell for it. His appearance is described in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He wears the clothes of full-grown men which he probably received as charity, and as Twain describes him, "he was fluttering with rags." He has a torn broken hat and his trousers are supported with only one suspender. The character of Huck Finn is based on Tom Blankenship, the real-life son of a sawmill laborer and sometime drunkard named Woodson Blankenship, who lived in a "ramshackle" house near the Mississippi River behind the house where the author grew up in Hannibal, Missouri. Twain mentions his childhood friend Tom Blankenship as the inspiration for creating Huckleberry Finn in his autobiography: "In Huckleberry Finn I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had. His liberties were totally unrestricted. He was the only really independent person—boy or man—in the community, and by consequence he was tranquilly and continuously happy and envied by the rest of us. And as his society was forbidden us by our parents the prohibition trebled and quadrupled its value, and therefore we sought and got more of his society than any other boy's."
1964 Samuel Clemens - Missouri State Medal Medallic Art Co Mark Twain Born Nov 30th 1835 – Died April 21st 1910) His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. An American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Samuel Clemens wrote many stories and books but my very favorites are Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I also like the tale of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Twain created a reverent portrayal of Joan of Arc, a subject over which he had obsessed for forty years, studied for a dozen years and spent two years writing about. In 1900 and again in 1908 he stated, "I like Joan of Arc best of all my books, it is the best". Those who knew Twain well late in life recount that he dwelt on the subject of the afterlife, his daughter Clara saying: "Sometimes he believed death ended everything, but most of the time he felt sure of a life beyond." Twain was born two weeks after Halley's Comet's closest approach in 1835; he said in 1909: "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet." The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together". Twain's prediction was accurate, he died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910 one day after the comet's closest approach to Earth.
1975 Longines Symphonette Mark Twain Sterling Silver Medal This medal mentions Tom Sawyer an Huckleberry Finn on the reverse. I have a 1920 copy of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which draws on his youth in Hannibal, Missouri. Tom Sawyer was modeled on Twain as a child, with traces of schoolmates John Briggs and Will Bowen. The book also introduces Huckleberry Finn in a supporting role, based on Twain's boyhood friend Tom Blankenship. Twain's other major published work which I have a matching 1917 copy was the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which confirmed him as a noteworthy American writer. Some have called it the first Great American Novel, and the book has become required reading in many schools throughout the United States. Huckleberry Finn was an offshoot from Tom Sawyer and had a more serious tone than its predecessor. Four hundred manuscript pages were written in mid-1876, right after the publication of Tom Sawyer. The last fifth of Huckleberry Finn is subject to much controversy. I always loved being on big rivers, whether swimming on a weekday afternoon, or fishing for catfish from a boat at night, I've have done both, hundreds, if not a thousand times. Many a time, I thought about these characters out there on the river and love these stories. I like the old movies too. Not a coin but I have to post my US Commemorative Dollar here anyway to add to the story.
1928 Tom Sawyer Washwear Good Luck Token A rather hard to find 1928 Tom Sawyer obverse with the common swastika reverse, Good Luck token. A little larger than a US quarter. This was in nasty corroded condition and I did what I could to conserve it short of taking away all the darker patina that remained. I don't feel I scratched it too much, but any further treatment would probably make it worse. It is improved anyway. I had higher hopes. Tom Sawyer Washwear was a brand of boys clothing that could withstand a beating with the boys playing in them. Mom used to say "Go put on your play clothes" after church or school before I could go outside. A Tom Sawyer magazine advertisement on left and a promotional calendar on right from days gone by.