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French Assurance company long service medal.

 

Love the eagle on your medal yarm. From the look of your picture it looks to have a little trace of bluish toning or is that just the lighting?

Bruce

 

Since joining cointalk, I've take a whole lot of pictures of my collection... since I've started the folder, figure what the heck, may as well start photo-documenting my entire collection.... but my digital camera is running outta film

photgraphs taken with a cheap old Nikon coolpix S570

 

I agree, pretty hard. In fact, I am still not a cubs fan! :hail:

 

I knew I had some somewhere back in my posts...

 

More a greenish blue in hand.

This one has bluish tints.

Bob


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Very nice medal Bob. I can see the toning in this one better.

Bruce

 

Very nice indeed. First Crystal Palace Medal I have ever seen. How did you aquire it?

 

I thought I would add mine in here as well. The first two shown are my casino chip collection and my coin holder collection. I exclude piggy banks from my holder collection. The two holders are my largest and smallest pieces. I also have two other displays of casino chips. This is my third and largest. Being a little bit of a gambler, I can say I have personally played in every casino pictured on the chips. The last collection is from the Chicago's World Fair of 1892 and 1893. Living in the area, it seemed like a natural thing to have.

 

That is a sweet cash register Sam!

This is my latest addition in the token category.

 

Here are two of the most unusual counterstamped coins I've ever seen. I won them on eBay about two weeks ago from different sellers. I don't know the purpose of the Indian head strike but it's on the obverse of a Lincoln Cent. If you look on the reverse you can clearly see what's left of the design. Unfortunately, there's no undertype on the obverse so I can't come up with a date.
I've always wanted a Masonic Penny and when I saw this unique "deep dish" design I decided to buy it. The really interesting thing about this one is you can see all the lettering pretty clearly on the curled up sides. I can even make out the date...1959-D. The reverse though is totally flattened and shows no hint of the coin's devices. I thought you might be interested in seeing these two unusual pieces. Thanks for looking.

Bruce

 

Here's a much more recent photo with a new top sign and locked, gold coin box, now installed. The other photo shows the decorative back panel. You can also see some of my coin and paper currency displays along side the computer in the background. Now that the register has been totally restored and refinished, I will be listing it for sale on eBay. It's over 100 years old and all original parts were used to refurbish it.

 

From my early days in collecting.......

 

I plucked the silver one from a UK dealer's inventory. The Crystal Place (1854) design appears with some regularity on Ebay in various sizes and metals.

 

Here are a few CWT specimens from my cabinet, as well as a Stephen Douglas campaign ferrotype I just recently acquired (Douglas ran against Lincoln in the 1860 election):












Thanks,

Cheetah

 

This is why this thread so interesting. I see things I don't collect and therefor they are new to me. There are so many items I am not aware of which are common knowledge to others. I guess that's one reason this thread keeps going on and I keep coming back to it. I'll have to research the origins of this medal and see if I can get one off of eBay. Again, nice pick-up.

 

Yarm:

1893?

Why would they wait (from 1851) to award the medal?

1893 Was the Columbian Expo.

 

The reverse of the medal says it was awarded to a painter for her water color painting