Very nice! My recent purchases here: Aargau 1891 Cantonal Shooting Festival at Bremgarten Richter-14c, Martin-13, Krause-7 Design: Bovy 45mm Bronze Mintage: 600 Obwalden, 1899 Cantonal Shooting Festival at Engelberg Richter-1045a, Martin-879, Krause-307 Design: Huguenin/Le Lockle 45mm Silver Mintage: Unknown Schwyz, 1902 Cantonal Shooting Festival at Kussnacht Richter-1078a, Martin-624, Krause-213 Design: Hans Frei/Basel 45mm Silver Mintage: Unknown Basel, 1903 Cantonal Shooting Festival at Beider Richter-129a, Martin-80, Krause-45 Design: Hans Frei 45mm Silver Mintage: Unknown Soluthurn, 1890 Solothurn Kantonal Schützenfest Richter-1121c, Martin-645, Krause-220 Design: Hugues Bovy 45mm Bronze Mintage: 860 Glarus, 1892 Federal Shooting Festival Richter-808e, Martin-432, Krause-134 Design: Huguenin/Le Lockle 45mm Bronze Mintage: 1,912
Nice ones Zohar. I have seven more Swiss medals on the way. I'm also looking at picking up some German shooting medals.
They range in price from $40 to over $1000, with most MS examples available for +/- $150 if you can find them. I found this recently, actually it found me! 1905 Olten (Solothurn) R-1128b Silver - 23mm Holy Freres 795 minted The 1128b is the 23mm companion medal to the larger 45mm R-1127a as seen here..... The new medal was purchased from the family of the actual winner. Mint state condition in a perfect presentation case.
Those are some fantastic-looking medals. I have three shooting medals-- two from 1939 that were redeemable for cash until August 31, 1939, and this one from the July 1890 National Schuetzenfest in Frauenfeld:
1939 Gold shooting medal Instead of artwork, this national shooting festival medal just has lettering on the reverse: "Redeemable until 31 August 1939" and "One for all, all for one" I find it interesting that the expiration date for redemption was the day before World War II started in Europe.
