Bronze medal ID
copperfever
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Looking for info on this bronze medal of Dan'l Boone measures 45mm weighs 37gm. The date of 1769 on the medal is the year Boone started exploration of Kentucky so this is a bicentennial medal of some kind. Looking for the organization who put it out in 1969.
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The engraver is Herbert Alvin Sharpe. He was prolific engraver who also created the Mardi Gras Doubloons. He's created quite a few medals and some for the ANA as well including this one:
https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2015/09/hand-hammered-medal-made-by-mardi-gras-doubloon-founder.all.html
Ah, so he is the H.A.S. under the chin. Thanks. Now, does anyone know who put this medal out?
No idea, but nice medal.
Thanks, I have struck out so far on identification though.
I like it !!!
It is possible that H. Alvin Sharp did the medal on his own. The dies were hand engraved by Sharp.
Use the Google to find lots of his art work was offered for sale at the Neal gallery. Nice medal and looks like he liked to work with metal. Peace Roy
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It might be a long shot but if you can identify the company that struck.itthst light help with the issuer (they might not have been the same). How big is the medal? If it is a large medal, for example, there might have been only a few places capable of striking it.
@copperfever .....Welcome aboard....Nice medal....Cheers, RickO
I see now that you posted the size. That is a big medal.
Mr. Sharpe did a number of large medals in bronze about 1970, including "Silent Pardners", a prospector and mule. This one is not too hard to find.
His Mardi Gras doubloons were smaller at approximately 38 mm and were mass produced somewhere. They are mostly common in aluminum, but the strikes in silver are pricey.
While a prolific engraver (he did prints too), I think that Mr. Sharpe probably made his living mostly doing rings and jewelry.
I have heard that the silver mardi gras dubloons were mostly made for the members of the crewe that would throw the aluminum versions to the crowd.
@291fifth Possibly so, I have bought three silvers from somebody who seems to have been affiliated with the Poseidon crewe. I think that was the crewe that Sharpe engraved for (I have that written down in one of my main notebooks, just don't have the ambition to look it up this morning!).
Silver was much cheaper back when they started tossing the aluminum doubloons!
Franklin Mint had Mr. Sharpe engrave a silver medal for them about 1973 - 1975. That might have been for St. Patrick's Day.
I believe you are correct regarding the Franklin Mint St. Patrick's Day medal. I once owned one long ago.
I own one of those FM/ St. Paddy's Day medals, but can't put my fingers on it.
I bought it because of the connection to Mr. Sharpe.
This isn't Franklin Mint, but it is HAS:
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Herbert Alvin Sharpe was prolific to say the least!. I still find these ANA medals interesting,
The uniface medal is quite hefty in weight.
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Nice!