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A very nice medal, NickelGuy. The Heraldic issues are always of the highest quality. I also like to see the original "packaging" saved along with medal itself.

Bruce

 

Have you ever went to a show,,,and you see something that you know a good friend would like?
And you hem and haw and then you say WTH....if they dont want it...I'll keep it?
Well Dennis what say you ?

 

Anyone like chi chi's? j/k Here's a Chi Chi Club Token I recently bought, sucker is huge, bronze and heavy!

 

Oh thats just a mammary......a mammary... save the tatas...

 

A potpourri of Mardi Grad exo with a couple of St. Paddy's day as well.

 

I have this one on its way to me. Just one of those that said "buy me" when I saw it.



GERMANY. Aschaffenburg. Silver Schützenmedaille (Shooting Medal).
Issued 1929.

Issued for the royal privileged shooting club in Aschaffenburg

Diameter: 40mm
Weight: 23.43 g

By Reinhardt.

Obverse: SANKTUS SEBASTIANUS PATRONUS, St. Sebastian right, head facing, bound to lengthy stump and with heart and abdomen pierced by arrows; foliage in background; all within quatrefoil

Reverse: K PRIVILEG SCHÜTZENGESELLSCH ASCHAFFENBURG, perspective view of Schloss Johannisburg; in exergue, target behind crossed rifles and within wreath of oak branches.

Edge: Plain.

Gem Mint State. Highly brilliant and prooflike, with a deep tone throughout and some iridescence revealed when cradled back and forth. A rare and seldom seen shooting-related medal.

Sebastian was an early Christian saint who is said to have been martyred during the persecutions of Roman Emperor Diocletian, circa C.E. 288. He was condemned to death by being tied to a tree and shot with arrows, though he survived this act. He attempted to warn Diocletian of his sins and was then subsequently clubbed to death. Given his initial condemnation, he is traditionally represented in Catholicism as being pierced by arrows, as is the case on this medal. He serves, rather appropriately, as the patron saint of archers, as well as soldiers, athletes, race car drivers, and, relevant to current times, the plague stricken.

 

1971 Thanksgiving
Heraldic Art Medal





Plymouth’s Thanksgiving began with a 3-day event in Plymouth in the fall of 1621. A few colonists going out “fowling,” possibly for turkeys, but more probably for the easier prey of geese and ducks, since they “in one day killed as much as…served the company almost a week.”
Then 90 or so Wampanoag Indians made a surprise appearance at the settlement’s gate, doubtlessly unnerving the 50 or so colonists. Over the next few days the two groups socialized without incident.
The Wampanoag contributed venison to the feast, which included the fowl and probably fish, eels, shellfish, stews, vegetables, and beer.
Since Plymouth had few buildings and manufactured goods, most people ate outside while sitting on the ground or on barrels with plates on their laps.
A treaty between the Pilgrims and Wampanoag lasted 54 years until King Philip’s War when hundreds of colonists and thousands of Native Americans lost their lives.



The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating “Thanksgivings,” days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought.
Thanksgiving Day did not become an official holiday until Northerners dominated the federal government.

On October 3, 1863, during the Civil War,
Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26.
The holiday was annually proclaimed by every president thereafter, and the date chosen, with few exceptions, was the last Thursday in November.

 

1972 League Of Six Nations
Heraldic Art Medal





The Iroquois Confederacy
“People of the Longhouse”
Is made up of six nations. The Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora. The first 5 came together between 1570 and 1600 to live in peace across upper New York. This league is one of the world’s oldest participatory democracies. The confederacy’s constitution, The Great Law of Peace is believed to have been a model for the U.S. Constitution.

Here is a page I found with some very amazing informational links about each tribe.
http://vangilst.pbworks.com/w/page/79823747/Six Nations of Iroquois

From East to West

Mohawk
“People of the Flint” and “Keepers of the Eastern Door”
We identify them by the strip of hair in the middle of an otherwise shorn head. Fought for the British in the French and Indian War and then in the American Revolution.
Famous as iron and steel construction workers on skyscrapers in modern times.

Oneida
“People of the Standing Stone” They were America’s first allies during the American Revolution. They traveled hundreds of miles to bring corn to the starving Continental Army at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

Onondaga
“People of the Hills” and “Keepers of the Central Fire”
In 1779 Onondaga attacks against the Iroquois were led by General John Sullivan.

Cayuga
“People of the Great Swamp” allies of the British in the French and Indian war.

Seneca
“People of the Great Hill” and “Keepers of the Western Door.” The Seneca were able to assemble as many as 1,000 warriors, roughly the equivalent of the forces of the other Iroquois nations combined. Also allies of the British.

Then to the South
Tuscarora
“People of the Shirt” join in 1722, migrated from North Carolina to southern central New York because they were kidnapped and sold into slavery by the British in the South. Most Tuscarora were allies to the colonists in the American Revolution.

 

Love the Iroquois Confederacy Medal up there! Here's some of my Native American Tokens!

 

Maybe a few more, with a hand made one!

 

Here's another page of a hodge podge mix!