GOETZ: K-206 Peace Treaty with Great Russia

cacheman

K-206 Not - Friede mit Gross-Russland; (Distress - Peace with Great Russia)
1918, Cast Bronze, 58mm. UNC/Gussfrisch

Obverse: Broken pillar, torch with dying flame, a pair of tongs encircled with a knout. Inscription “Peace with Great Russia, Famine.”

Reverse: Eagle on helmet with peace dove. In field, a gallows and Revolution flag. Inscription: “Mar. 3, 1918”.

This medal commemorates the signing of the peace treaty between Germany and the Bolshevik delegates. Goetz called this the ‘famine’ treaty due to the enormous food shortages occurring in Russia at the time.

Stork

Was this one of the ones done in iron too? How many years was Goetz actively working? I wonder how many medals and ideas he came up with each year.


Cathy


BTW I saw a few Goetz medals yesterday too which was cool.

cacheman

Hi Cathy...all of the WWI satirical medals were initially done in iron during the war years 1914-1917. Goetz then cast the satiricals again (due to their popularity), in bronze, immediately following the conclusion of the war when there were no longer restrictions placed on non-military uses of "strategic' metals. I have a few iron examples but they don't cast up as crisp and clean as do the bronze examples.

Goetz has about 800 designs to his credit in the 45 years he was creating medals.

oldshep

Scott - In your reply to Stork, you answered a question I was going to ask - and that was --how many medals are attributed to Goetz during his career.

Shep

Dentuck

Dentuck

Cacheman, if you don't mind my asking, of the ~800 designs, how many do you own?

Best wishes,

-- Dentuck

cacheman

<< <i>Cacheman, if you don't mind my asking, of the ~800 designs, how many do you own?

Best wishes,

-- Dentuck >>



I haven't counted recently but it must be near 375 of them....five or six of these are, to date, unrecorded or not previously attributed to Goetz.

HenriIII

How long have you been collecting Goetz! Or did you inherit some of them. That is a massive collection. Plus the cost of medals.

cacheman

<< <i>How long have you been collecting Goetz! Or did you inherit some of them. That is a massive collection. Plus the cost of medals. >>



At the beginning of May it'll be three years that I have been collecting..... No inheritance, I just love the guy and his work.