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Message:: [QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8196281, member: 20201"]1911 Columbus Day City of New York Medal [ATTACH=full]1435671[/ATTACH]  [ATTACH=full]1435672[/ATTACH]  1910 COLUMBUS DAY - MASSACHUSETTS Medal [ATTACH=full]1435673[/ATTACH]  [ATTACH=full]1435674[/ATTACH] I have not yet found what connection this has to Massachusetts in 1910. It could simply be a medal of celebration of the first Christopher Columbus voyage. When I was a kid, we were taught that it was Columbus who discovered America. We also celebrated October 12th as an important day of the year.That has always been good enough for me. In recent times, people have protested this, even to the point of removing Columbus Day from the calendar and list of traditional American holidays entirely. On the evening of 3 August 1492, Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera, located in the southwestern Spanish province of Huelva with three ships. The larger carrack, the Santa María and two smaller caravels, the Pinta and the Santa Clara, nicknamed the Niña after her owner Juan Niño of Moguer.The monarchs forced the citizens of Palos to contribute to the expedition. The Santa María was owned by Juan de la Cosa and captained by Columbus. The Pinta and the Niña were piloted by the Pinzón brothers (Martín Alonso and Vicente Yáñez).Columbus first sailed to the Canary Islands, which belonged to Castile. He restocked provisions and made repairs in Gran Canaria, then departed from San Sebastián de La Gomera on 6 September, for what turned out to be a five-week voyage across the ocean. At about 2:00 in the morning of 12 October, a lookout on the Pinta, Rodrigo de Triana (also known as Juan Rodríguez Bermeo), spotted land, and immediately alerted the rest of the crew with a shout. Thereupon, the captain of the Pinta, Martín Alonso Pinzón, verified the discovery and alerted Columbus by firing a lombard, a smoothbore cannon used in the early Renaissance in Spain and Italy.Columbus later maintained that he himself had already seen a light on the land a few hours earlier, thereby claiming for himself the lifetime pension promised by Ferdinand and Isabella to the first person to sight land.Columbus called the island (in what is now the Bahamas) San Salvador (meaning "Holy Savior")The natives called it Guanahani. Exactly which island in the Bahamas this corresponds to is unresolved. Based on primary accounts and on what one would expect from the geographic positions of the islands given Columbus's course, the prime candidates are San Salvador Island. (so named in 1925 on the theory that it was Columbus's San Salvador) 1892 Christopher Columbus Columbian ExpositionSouvenir Medalet [ATTACH=full]1435675[/ATTACH]  [ATTACH=full]1435676[/ATTACH] 25 mm There are numerous busts and styles of Columbus on the front of this medal that have the same reverse. This one is a bit more scarce. It may have been attached to a stick pin by a ring through the hole. All I have seen are holed without a ring or stickpin. It may also be part of a ribbon. 1892 Columbus Washington Lincoln Grant Eglit 89 [ATTACH=full]1435678[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1435679[/ATTACH] 400th Anniversary of ColumbusDiscovery of America Washington, Lincoln and Grant appear as Father, Savior and Defender referring to the Presidents on the reverse in that order. The red ribbon would have had a rather large sword through it. Perhaps to go on a lapel or ladies hat. I have the ribbon but not the pin.I have seen another with a hatchet pin. This is Eglit No. 89 but there is also another with a different bust of Columbus with this same reverse cataloged as Eglit No. 88 1892 Columbian Exposition Columbus - Lords PrayerSmall Medalet about the size of a dime. [ATTACH=full]1435680[/ATTACH]  [ATTACH=full]1435681[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]

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