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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 532575, member: 39&quot;]Cannot really say anything about this plaque, but the texts help to some extent:</p><p><i>GEB. MDCCCXXVI</i> - born in 1826</p><p><i>DEUTSCHLAND über ALLES</i> - Germany above all</p><p><i>FRIEDRICH GROSHERZOG von BADEN</i> - Friedrich Grand Duke of Baden</p><p><br /></p><p>The motto on the other side is: <i>&quot;Frei sei die Wissenschaft / des Volkes Stärke / sind Kunst / und Gewerke / und Sonnenschein / sei dem Korn und / dem Wein&quot;</i> which could be translated like this maybe: &quot;Free be the science / the strength of the people / are art / and Gewerke (crafts?) / And sunshine / be for the grain / and the wine&quot; (Now in German that rhymes, but it does not sound much better than the English version ...)</p><p><br /></p><p>On this page <a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/kunstgewerbeblat13leipuoft/kunstgewerbeblat13leipuoft_djvu.txt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.archive.org/stream/kunstgewerbeblat13leipuoft/kunstgewerbeblat13leipuoft_djvu.txt" rel="nofollow">http://www.archive.org/stream/kunstgewerbeblat13leipuoft/kunstgewerbeblat13leipuoft_djvu.txt</a> you find a rudimentary text version of some old document which also mentions two medals: <i>Die Plaketten Orossherzog von Baden mit der Aufschrift &quot;Deutschland über Alles&quot; und Königin Luise, Dr. Fieses, sowie grosse Plakette mit der weiblichen Figur und deren Inschrift: &quot;Frei sei die Wissenschaft etc.&quot;, sind nach Professor Mayer&#039;s Modell in der Prägeanstalt von B. H. Mayer in Pforzheim ausgeführt.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Forget the part about Queen Luise; that seems to be some other medal. But that &quot;plaque with the female figure&quot; could be yours. In that case it was made by the Mayer Mint in Pforzheim (now in Karlsfeld, BY). Judging from when the text was published, I&#039;d say it was made in 1900/01 ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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