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NEWP 1718 Frankfurt Wedding Medal

jimhopkins1919jimhopkins1919 Posts: 101 ✭✭✭
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Frankfurt 1718 Silver Medal celebrating the Golden Wedding of Seager V. Uschen and Margarethe Bartels. It shows a hand from the clouds binding the families’ coats of arms on the obverse and father Jacob in front of ladder on the reverse. 29.43 g and 44 mm. Medal by Christian Wermuth.


Won this in the recent Emporium Hamburg Auction. Paid a fair bit more than I wanted but I knew I’d regret not getting it. I’m really excited that I got it! It’s really beautiful.

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  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Like the randy horse in the right oval!

    Honors flysis Income beezis Onches nobis Inob keesis

    DPOTD
  • Bob13Bob13 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congrats on the pickup!

    My current "Box of 20"

  • ZoharZohar Posts: 6,713 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Never seen that design. Well done.

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  • jimhopkins1919jimhopkins1919 Posts: 101 ✭✭✭

    Thanks!

  • worldcoinguyworldcoinguy Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Excellent design. I like it!

  • OboneObone Posts: 139 ✭✭✭

    Lovely Medal! The big heft silver medals are so cool

  • jimhopkins1919jimhopkins1919 Posts: 101 ✭✭✭

    Thanks! First time I ever saw something in an auction that I knew I had to win.

  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,008 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 20, 2020 12:11AM

    That's absolutely gorgeous- so intricate!

    Talk about a "Stairway to Heaven!"

    Re. Emporium Hamburg- you might want to read this, though I'm not suggesting it has any bearing on your medal whatsoever.

    In light of what I've read, I'm suspicious of that firm, but your medal looks OK to me, from all I can tell. I'm not a specialist in such things, but it looks right for the period? I'd get it checked by someone who IS a specialist, just to be sure.

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

  • jimhopkins1919jimhopkins1919 Posts: 101 ✭✭✭

    Wow, I definitely missed that thread when I did some brief research on that auction site before bidding. I did do a good bit more research in regards to the medal and I found a few examples of the medal selling in auctions in the past. I’ll definitely refrain from using them in the future thou.

  • rwyarmchrwyarmch Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭✭

    Marlborough College boxing medal 1910

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