Hello. My seller offered me few Christian medals at very exceptional prices on the occasion of Christmas. I didn't know what to choose but finally I come out with several pieces including this one that I noticed it was dated 1892. I think it's a medal. I welcome your generous opinions and all your comments. Thanks.. Charles
https://www.etsy.com/listing/96513778/saint-anthony-pope-leo-xiii-100-days-of See the above for a little info.
Thanks DS. I couldn't get the price because the item was sold as soon as I asked for the price. I might be wrong anyway. Still I got registered.. BTW, Here's another similar item probably dated 1743 . What would you say?
This is a tag for a brand of champagne made by a company founded in 1743. There is nothing about this medal that suggests it is that old so I suspect it came from a bottle of wine of a very famous brand Dom Pérignon first sold in 1936. I am not a student of 20th century wine bottle tags so I'll leave you with the decision if you want it.
Sometimes it amazes me how easy it is to find something using Google. Type in Saint Anthony cross and select images. Scroll down until you see the one in a thousand images that matches. Go to the page from which they took the image and see what they had to say about it. The Cross struck me as a very collectible item for someone who is Catholic and interested in medals. I am neither but I don't mind learning useless stuff. The second one might be a really great item for people interested in the history of champagne or France. Again I'm neither but the tag looks less impressive to me than the cross in terms of manufacture. It also looks small to me rather like something a very expensive wine in 1936 might have had attached around its neck. To the right person, it might be a rare collectible so I hesitate to say it looks uninteresting and/or worthless. I do note there is nothing similar shown in photos of multi thousand dollar vintage wine auctions so the tag may be a souvenir of a visit to the winery sometime in the past. I already know way more about this than I want but researching things online is fun to a point. IMHO all schools should have a class in search engine schools. I suspect there are 15 year olds around who could have found all this and more in a fraction of the time it took me to fail on the second one.
The second item is an early to mid 20th C. advertising watch fob. It would not be attached to a bottle. Possibly sent to wine merchants to give away.
This medal seems to have some bronze disease, suggesting that it could be very old. On one face I can read: San Luis Gonzaga. The other face reads : Maria Sine Labe concepta ora Pro Nobis Adte confugientibs.. Here it is..
