Adam R Posted December 13, 2015 Share #1 Posted December 13, 2015 Recently I acquired an extensive Massachusetts Volunteer Militia shooting medal group that includes three beautiful gold medals. The most desirable is the Distinguished Marksman badge but all three are works of art. I thought they would make a good starting point for a thread on the subject of “gold medals”. (Unfortunately gold is a difficult metal to photograph when it’s highly polished.) The first ten medals are from my collection. The others are ones that I photographed in museums or private collections. Please post any photos that you have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share #2 Posted December 13, 2015 Distinguished obverse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share #3 Posted December 13, 2015 Distinguished reverse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share #4 Posted December 13, 2015 Civil War USN vets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share #5 Posted December 13, 2015 Society of Santiago and Military Order of Foreign Wars to a US Army officer who was KIA in the Philippines in 1901. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share #6 Posted December 13, 2015 Reverse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share #7 Posted December 13, 2015 Society of Military Surgeons, pre-WWI. Not marked, but probably 10k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share #8 Posted December 13, 2015 Naval and Military Order of the Spanish American War. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share #9 Posted December 13, 2015 Reverse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share #10 Posted December 13, 2015 Edge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share #11 Posted December 13, 2015 Civil War – Army of the Cumberland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share #12 Posted December 13, 2015 Detail of metal work on obverse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share #13 Posted December 13, 2015 Reverse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share #14 Posted December 13, 2015 A Nicaraguan decoration that was awarded to a few Marines who served in that country in the late 1920s and early 30. Probably made in the USA. Marked on the rim 14k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share #15 Posted December 13, 2015 Another Santiago, named to a Rough Rider. (ex AGR collection.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share #16 Posted December 13, 2015 1939 – 1941 Antarctic Expedition. Washington Navy Yard Museum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share #17 Posted December 13, 2015 NC-4 Medal for Trans Atlantic Flight. Washington Navy Yard Museum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share #18 Posted December 13, 2015 “Tiffany Cross” Medal of Honor to Floyd Bennett. Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share #19 Posted December 13, 2015 Reverse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share #20 Posted December 13, 2015 Variation of the Army of the Cumberland. (Unknown online source.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emccomas Posted December 13, 2015 Share #21 Posted December 13, 2015 Here is the one gold medal that I own...not really a medal per se, but sort of fits the bill. This is an award presented for an essay on Morgan S. Gilmer UCV (United Confederate Veterans). The reverse of the medal says: UDC HISTORICAL Medal TO Hassie E. Terrell A. C. C. 1913 Morgan S. Gilmer was a student at the University of Alabama that left the university to go and fight for the Confederacy. After the war, he became a legend in Alabama and organized a group of children, the sons and daughters of Confederate veterans and named them the "Yaller-Hammers". Yaller-Hammers was the nickname of Alabama soldiers during the war. A.C.C. stands for Alabama Charter Chapter, the first chapter of the UDC in Alabama. Hassie E. Terrell was from the Montgomery area of Alabama, and she eventually married a man named Charles Hixon, who became a professor of engineering at what is now Auburn University. Hassie Terrell passed away in 1931. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted December 13, 2015 Share #22 Posted December 13, 2015 Awesome stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
45govt Posted December 13, 2015 Share #23 Posted December 13, 2015 Adam Here is my only gold and it has been posted before Early Distinguished Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
45govt Posted December 13, 2015 Share #24 Posted December 13, 2015 This one belongs to a friend I hope he won't mind my posting it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aerialbridge Posted December 14, 2015 Share #25 Posted December 14, 2015 Beautiful medals and photography, all that gold glitters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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