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<p>[QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8181173, member: 20201"]<font size="6"><b>1986 Wilhelm Tell Orden</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>Luzern Casino Medal</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><br /></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>[ATTACH=full]1430371[/ATTACH]</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><br /></font></p><p><font size="6"><b> [ATTACH=full]1430372[/ATTACH] </b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>A medal to add to my other folklore medals. I remember very well the story of William Tell as a child.</p><p>Perhaps being a youngster myself with good imagination, I could not quite grasp the idea of why he would take the chance of shooting his son in error. It's one of those things that stick with you I suppose.</p><p>It has stuck with the Swiss for over 700 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have found this large 53mm 58 gram medal came with a red velvet ribbon to be worn about the neck, my best guess is that it is a modern silvered shooting medal from the mid 1980's sponsored by the Casino Luzern that is located on the shore of Lake Lucerne in Lucerne Switzerland.</p><p>The casino is shown on the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1430373[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The Wilhelm Tell Monument is a memorial to William Tell in the market place of Altdorf, Canton of Uri, Switzerland. This is nicely depicted on the obverse.</p><p>The bronze statue by sculptor Richard Kissling was inaugurated on August 28, 1895 at the foot of an old tower. Behind the scupture is a bronze plate with the following inscription</p><p>that translates to</p><p>It will be talked about (in the sense of "stories will be told about") the marksman Tell as long as the mountains stand on their base. It shows the Swiss national hero with his crossbow and accompanied by his son. At the base is the traditional date of Rütlischwur of 1307.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1430374[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Rütlischwur is a legendary oath of the Old Swiss Confederacy, taken on the Rütli, a meadow above Lake Uri near Seelisberg. The oath is notably featured in the play William Tell (Wilhelm Tell) by Friedrich Schiller.</p><p><br /></p><p>The legend of William Tell, a folk hero from Switzerland, was the start of the swiss revolution, written first in the 15th-century White Book of Sarnen, and later the basis for Friedrich Schiller's 1804 play. </p><p><br /></p><p>Tell is arrested for failing to bow in respect to the hat that the newly appointed Austrian Vogt, Albrecht Gessler, has placed on a pole, and Gessler commands him to shoot an apple off his son's head with a single bolt from his crossbow. </p><p>If he did not both he and his son would be killed.</p><p>After splitting the apple with the single shot on November 18, 1307, Tell is asked why he took more than one arrow from his quiver.</p><p>At first he responds that it was out of habit, but when assured he will not be killed for answering honestly, says the second bolt was meant for Gessler's heart should his arrow strike his son.</p><p><br /></p><p>In Schiller's play, the demand to shoot the apple off the boy's head motivates Gessler's murder.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8181173, member: 20201"][SIZE=6][B]1986 Wilhelm Tell Orden[/B] [B]Luzern Casino Medal[/B] [B][/B] [B][ATTACH=full]1430371[/ATTACH][/B] [B][/B] [B] [ATTACH=full]1430372[/ATTACH] [/B][/SIZE] A medal to add to my other folklore medals. I remember very well the story of William Tell as a child. Perhaps being a youngster myself with good imagination, I could not quite grasp the idea of why he would take the chance of shooting his son in error. It's one of those things that stick with you I suppose. It has stuck with the Swiss for over 700 years. I have found this large 53mm 58 gram medal came with a red velvet ribbon to be worn about the neck, my best guess is that it is a modern silvered shooting medal from the mid 1980's sponsored by the Casino Luzern that is located on the shore of Lake Lucerne in Lucerne Switzerland. The casino is shown on the reverse. [ATTACH=full]1430373[/ATTACH] The Wilhelm Tell Monument is a memorial to William Tell in the market place of Altdorf, Canton of Uri, Switzerland. This is nicely depicted on the obverse. The bronze statue by sculptor Richard Kissling was inaugurated on August 28, 1895 at the foot of an old tower. Behind the scupture is a bronze plate with the following inscription that translates to It will be talked about (in the sense of "stories will be told about") the marksman Tell as long as the mountains stand on their base. It shows the Swiss national hero with his crossbow and accompanied by his son. At the base is the traditional date of Rütlischwur of 1307. [ATTACH=full]1430374[/ATTACH] Rütlischwur is a legendary oath of the Old Swiss Confederacy, taken on the Rütli, a meadow above Lake Uri near Seelisberg. The oath is notably featured in the play William Tell (Wilhelm Tell) by Friedrich Schiller. The legend of William Tell, a folk hero from Switzerland, was the start of the swiss revolution, written first in the 15th-century White Book of Sarnen, and later the basis for Friedrich Schiller's 1804 play. Tell is arrested for failing to bow in respect to the hat that the newly appointed Austrian Vogt, Albrecht Gessler, has placed on a pole, and Gessler commands him to shoot an apple off his son's head with a single bolt from his crossbow. If he did not both he and his son would be killed. After splitting the apple with the single shot on November 18, 1307, Tell is asked why he took more than one arrow from his quiver. At first he responds that it was out of habit, but when assured he will not be killed for answering honestly, says the second bolt was meant for Gessler's heart should his arrow strike his son. In Schiller's play, the demand to shoot the apple off the boy's head motivates Gessler's murder.[/QUOTE]
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