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Just won my first lot with R. M. Smythe

DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly."



- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC

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    drwstr123drwstr123 Posts: 7,053 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Beauties! Mike
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    BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    Nice color.
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    jonathanbjonathanb Posts: 4,148 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Do you know anything about that series? I have several (copper, not silver). I've never seen any commentary that said other than "Apparently made by Brichaut, probably in the 1870s or 1880s", all of which can pretty much be read straight from the medals.

    I think I won three lots, but nothing noteworthy. I'm spending too much lately, and I intentionally kept my bids low. They had some neat stuff in that sale...

    jonathan
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    DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭
    Only info I've bin able to come up with is they are Inauguration medals. Johnson took office in 1865 after Lincoln's
    death. I am guessing these were once part of "sets" which one could buy in differant compositions. But this is just a guess.
    “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly."



    - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
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    jonathanbjonathanb Posts: 4,148 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They're not inauguration medals. Brichaut was born after the earliest medals are "dated". They seem to have been produced all at the same time.

    They come in white metal, copper (brass? bronze?) and silver versions. Stack's sold a pair of William Henry Harrison pieces, where they said, "From Belgian medalist Auguste Brichaut's series honoring U.S. Presidents from Washington through Hayes, a somewhat mysterious set whose individual medals are seldom encountered today."

    Early American sold a larger group of them (8 pieces?) a year or two ago, and had even less to say about the origin of the set.
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    pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭
    Very nice indeed!
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    Go BIG or GO HOME. ©Bill
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    MeijiMeiji Posts: 170 ✭✭
    Very Nice Medal, love the toning.
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    DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭


    << <i>They're not inauguration medals. Brichaut was born after the earliest medals are "dated". They seem to have been produced all at the same time.

    They come in white metal, copper (brass? bronze?) and silver versions. Stack's sold a pair of William Henry Harrison pieces, where they said, "From Belgian medalist Auguste Brichaut's series honoring U.S. Presidents from Washington through Hayes, a somewhat mysterious set whose individual medals are seldom encountered today."

    Early American sold a larger group of them (8 pieces?) a year or two ago, and had even less to say about the origin of the set. >>




    So that would make them Belgian commemoritive series?? image
    “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly."



    - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
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    very nice!image
    steve

    myCCset
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    BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!

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