Nach Paris (To Paris) 1914 - World War I British Satirical Medal

The newest addition to my collection; a couple of WW1 propaganda medals. The bronze version is pretty common, but the silver in not. I was lucky to get the pair. Here's the back story; in 1914, the Germans struck an interesting propaganda medal designed by Artur Loewental. The medal was a tribute to General Alexander von Kluck, in anticipation of his capturing Paris in 1914. However, the German advance on Paris failed thanks to the successful counterattack of the Allies on the Marne. Lowental’s image of the “Fury of War,” with torches in both hands, riding towards Paris, captivated other artists. It was later parodied by the French artist, Edmund Dulac (1882-1953), who designed a medal to commemorate the “turn of the tide,” in which a skeletal female figure sits astride a skeletal horse facing right, holding a burnt-out torch in either hand. This medal was produced around 1917.



The German design was used here on an Allied war propaganda medal emphasizing German atrocities during WWI: the burning of Louvain in 1914 during the “rape of Belgium”; the sinking of the British ocean liner Lusitania in 1915; the execution of a British nurse, Edith Cavell, for helping several allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium in 1915; the execution of a British mariner, Captain Charles Fryatt in 1916; and remembering victims of the European cities bombed by German zeppelins between 1914-1918.

 

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I love your photos! Quick question, how do you position your lights? How many lights do you use? Do you use a backlight? Thanks for your time.

 

Thank you. For the first angle view image, I used a single light 500 watt to the left side, through a Lee 216 diffuser. The front view images I used a hybrid axial lighting setup I developed. I've discussed it here; https://www.cointalk.com/threads/advanced-coin-photography.362765/