WAR AND PEACE MEDALS
European commemorative medals 20th century WW1 & Later
Austria, Belgium, Britain, France, Germany etc.
The themes of the following historical medals are war and
peace as propaganda, satire, heroism, tragedy and and the triumph of hope,
generosity and resolve. They merit study so that we don't repeat the mistakes
of the past. The list is haphazard in the way they have arrived in our trays and so that we can find them. Medals previously offered but unsold can be found by clicking on the links to next page. |
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Updated April 2010 Please note that the photos appear with a slight yellow tinge - winter light in London - the silver is more grey, the bronze less brassy! Please note that medals are offered subject to being unsold. Also the medals are not shown actual size - take note of the measurement. |
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Grenzbesetzung 1914-1915 Fus Bataillon 27 (engraved on cross) 25mm. marked .900 silver GBP 25 |
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WP002 Comite Lafayette, commemorative VI Feb 1778- VI Feb 1918 bronze medal, much darker than photo by Henry Nocq 1917 68mm. marked bronze on edge, GBP 50 |
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WP003-Germany, Karl Goetz, Sinking of the Lusitania original thin cast iron medal, 5 May 1915 satirical cast medal, to castigate the Cunard Line's business sense. Date of 5 May taken by British greenish black patina 54.5mm. diameter, 0.25mm. thick GBP 300
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WP004 Belgium/USA Woodrow Wilson honorific medal, Le Droit est plus precieux que la Paix; nous nous battons pour la Liberte - - refers to US joining WWI in Europe. Design by Rene Gregoire 1917 - bronze 68mm. sold |
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WP005 Europe-America flight, Bremen, 12-13 April 1928 by H Kohl, V Hunefeld, Fitzmaurice 37mm. silver GBP 55 Mfr. Prussian Mint .900 fine silver (on edge in German) |
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WP006 Field Marshal Friedrich of Austria, 1914-16 Weld Krieg silver struck medal (silber 990 on edge) 34mm thin flan by Lauer sold
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WP007 Germany, Stadt Bielefeld Notgeld (goldmark) issued by the city's savings bank, 1923 32mm. gilding metal. One of best made pieces of emergency money made during the period of hyperinflation in Germany after WWI. sold Obverse shows sleepyhead Bismarck as Michel or the German average Joe of popular literature against the , on the other the "Smith of Bielefeld", Severing with the Devil in the form of Poincare begging at his feet. Click here for legend and the background |
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pewter 45mm uniface GBP 20 | |
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medal by Legastellois, part of WWI series made after the armistice. sold however we have a duplicate, lower grade |
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WP011 Germany Charity medal for Home for War Blind - Kreigsblinden Heimstetten 1916 patron Admiral Karl Stephan , depiction of the Virgin Mary as protector of the home; by M Rothberger GBP 50 |
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WP012 France Ici les Barbares sont passes - by M Lancelot- Croce bronze 60mm. GBP 60 |
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Listing all the sites where they were in action from the Normandy beaches to NW Germany, 1939-1945. Bronze plaquette. uniface 70x51mm. GBP 35 |
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WP014 Flight of the Bremen from Europe to America 13 April 1928 arrival (see above for another commemorative) struck silver by Prussian State Mint .900 fine silver 36mm. GBP 120 |
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WP015 German medal for Liberation by Germans of Riga (Latvia) from Russians: September 1917 Ward Riga Frei iron 45mm. GBP 35 |
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WP016 France, Shooting medal (civilian) by Fraisse silvered bronze 50mm. GBP 35 |
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WP017 Democratie Francaise (Gallows) by David (d'Angers) 1846, commemorative for Galician Massacres revolt by impoverished Polish peasants resulting in the slaughter of many nobles, gentry and their families. silvered bronze 40mm. GBP 125 |
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WP018 Austro-Hungary, WWI Karl Friedrich 31mm. plated base metal sold |
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Zinc plaquette 71x38mm. GBP 70 | |
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signed Opus Zuttar, oval 50 x24mm inc. loop brass rare £75 |
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WP021 Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise Monument to the dead of Bergen Belsen, 1943-1945, inaugurated 23 mars 1904 bronze 70mm GBP 25 |
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