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LUDWIG GIES; The New Chaos, 1917

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My latest acquisition...feast your eyes as you are the first audience to see this piece since at least 1918. image

Das Neue Chaos
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    WWWWWW Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭
    Very interesting.
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    1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    What, no pictures for us this time?! image

    The medal is quite starkly moving and somber and even evokes feelings of utter hopelessness. Definitely a masterpiece.

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    CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,345 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Awesome piece of history. Do you have images of the other side?
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    cachemancacheman Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Awesome piece of history. Do you have images of the other side? >>



    I haven't taken the time to do the incuse reverse backside. It appears though, that he was much more exacting than most other incuse reverse pieces I have seen. Do you know what I mean when I'm talking about this casting technique?





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    UdoUdo Posts: 984 ✭✭


    << <i>The medal is quite starkly moving and somber and even evokes feelings of utter hopelessness. Definitely a masterpiece.

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    Couldn't have said it better

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    worldcoinguyworldcoinguy Posts: 3,063 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Fascinating piece of history!
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    StorkStork Posts: 5,208 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That is amazing! (Both the medal and the photography). Thank you for sharing with us again image.


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    ibzman350ibzman350 Posts: 5,315 ✭
    Nice, I like.........image


    Must have been cold the day the pic was taken..................image






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    cachemancacheman Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭✭
    "Must have been cold the day the pic was taken.................."

    ah, yes.........the usual response from the "nurpple patrol" image
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    cachemancacheman Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭✭
    Here is a pic of the incuse reverse...

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    theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    I guess that qualifies as a BBL.image
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    1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I guess that qualifies as a BBL.image >>



    Boy, now I really am beginning to wonder about you!!!

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    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
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    oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    Another pictorial piece of history - Thanks Scott, and keep them coming!!
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    Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,284 ✭✭✭
    Quite disturbing, there are two buildings which remind me of the World Trade Center.
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    theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    OK jester, tell me if it an INY or OUTY.image
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    ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭


    << <i>Quite disturbing, there are two buildings which remind me of the World Trade Center. >>




    That crossed my mind.

    That... is the coolest, most interesting medal or coin I have seen in a long time.
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    cachemancacheman Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭✭
    And it seems, on most extents, to be getting its point across. You have to recall that when this piece was made no common Germans knew they were losing the war, in fact, they still thought they had won even after it ended because that was what the government was telling them.

    I failed to mention the bags of money to the left of the factories...a statement for all the German Marks going to the profiteers and war efforts was bankrupting the country. Germany was paying a heavy toll in all arenas for the war they had started. Gies knew this and portrayed it all within this medallion.

    I forgot to mention that there are four bronze copies...three in Museums and one in a private collection somewhere. This iron example was probably the first piece created and the bronze pieces were made a little later after they were commissioned, and paid for, by the museums.
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    laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Quite remarkable...

    The medal is quite starkly moving and somber and even evokes feelings of utter hopelessness. Definitely a masterpiece. Well said Jester.
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    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
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