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Re: 1911 / 1917 Mexico - USMC Marines "For Service" medal - information needed
On many military medals the third side holds the key - many have been re-issued and are not period. Quite a bit of info is available on line but you can always buy a copy of Vernon or join OMSA. http… (View Post)1 -
Re: I guess This Is My Next Area of Collecting.....Heraldic Art Medals
There are many thousands of remaining pieces including three 1500+++ pc holdings of which I am aware. It's a sixty piece set + a handful of related commemorative & special pieces. Similar to… (View Post)4 -
Re: Does anyone here collect Masonic, Freemasons, I O O F ?
Brand had bought the Masonic overruns from at least one of the Chicago die sinkers so he had thousands of duplicates. When Bowers & Merena sold their part of his collection I recall them lotting … (View Post)1 -
Re: Yesterday in Boston
I was in Maryland for a college football game, it was Navy Week in Baltimore & the Blue Angels did their program right over the Inner Harbor. Memorable. (View Post)1 -
Re: Bryan Money, Medals and Tokens
Add in the fact that the 1896 campaign was the first extensive use of less expensive celluloid pin back buttons and the whole world of campaign items turned 180 degrees by the 1900 campaign. (View Post)2