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BillJones
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My sister-in-law sent these pictures to me of this medal. Does anyone know anything about this piece? I have not seen anything like it before.
Thanks for whatever help you can provide.
Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
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That's the most I can tell. Good luck, looks like an interesting piece
The shield with 2 red stripes and 3 stars represents either George Washington or Washington, DC. Wikipedia calls it the 'coat of arms of Washington's family' here but I'm not sure I believe that. It does appear on Washington stuff
That's the most I can tell. Good luck, looks like an interesting piece
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The shield with 2 red stripes and 3 stars represents either George Washington or Washington, DC. Wikipedia calls it the 'coat of arms of Washington's family' here but I'm not sure I believe that. It does appear on Washington stuff
That's the most I can tell. Good luck, looks like an interesting piece
Fixed link.
Thanks I fixed it as well
The shield with 2 red stripes and 3 stars represents either George Washington or Washington, DC. Wikipedia calls it the 'coat of arms of Washington's family' here but I'm not sure I believe that. It does appear on Washington stuff
That's the most I can tell. Good luck, looks like an interesting piece
Fixed link.
Thanks I fixed it as well
Cool
Generally, I wait a few minutes before fixing. In this case it was 3 minutes.
Good link. I did notice that the Washington coat of arms seems to always has 3 red stars, not 3 dark blue or black stars.
The Washington family crest is now also the flag of Washington DC, which also has 3 red stars. There's a lot of history in having a 12th English century coat of arms on our nation's capital.
BTW, it's cool that the Washington coat of arms may go back to the 12th century. In the 13th century, the Washington (fka Wessington) and Strickland families were united by marriage such that George Washington was related to William Strickland who visited him on the same trip he picked up the St. Oswald 1794 flowing hair dollar.
Bob Busby (tokenbob@aol.com)
It's the badge of the National Mary Washington Memorial Association (that's what the letters on the front of the badge stand for). Bishop and Elliot (American Society Medals) lists it as #74. Most of these are sterling, though members could buy gold ones too -- the badges were just for "Hereditary Life Members," presumably those who could prove descent from Mary Washington via one of GW's siblings.
They're pretty scarce, as are people who consider them valuable. There are still a handful of folks who collect these various hereditary society badges though. Hundreds of organizations existed in the late 19th century, after American history and genealogy became big deals after the Centennial. By WWI, the vast majority of them were extinct. The DAR and a handful of others survive today.
I'm a little embarrassed to know as much as I do on this oddball topic ...
Latin American Collection
Here's a photo of the Mary Washington Monument: the "First monument funded and built by women for a woman." Although Congress resolved to erect a monument for Mary Washington in 1789, a monument was not created until 1893, over 100 years later, through the efforts of the NMWMA. The NMWMA signed over the deed to the monument to the city of Fredericksburg in the 1960s.
MEDIATION ROCK
HERE
MARY BALL WASHINGTON PRAYED FOR THE
SAFETY OF HER SON AND COUNTRY DURING
THE DARK DAYS OF THE REVOLUTION
THIS TABLET WAS PRESENTED BY
THE NATIONAL MARY WASHINGTON
MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
CHARTERED FEBRUARY 22, 1890 – FEBRUARY 22, 1967
BY WHOSE DEVOTED EFFORTS THIS MONUMENT
WAS ERECTED AND THIS SITE MAINTAINED.
identification and history. Cheers, RickO
Thanks for posting
BHNC #203