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United Kingdom
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My personal one looks just like this but mine is framed and on the wall.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thanks John!! Just for the record this is a British Royal Air Force Long Service and Good Conduct Medal which since 1977 takes 15 years to earn. I think you are justifiably proud to have this in a frame on your wall.
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United States
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Fidelity and Casualty Insurance Company of N.Y. 25 Year Service in 10k gold, 10 grams, 32.4mm. Looped at the top for use as a watch fob I assume. The reverse is blank with only the maker's mark, Dieges and Clust at the bottom and engraved with recipients name, town and date.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Fidelity-Phenix Fire Insurance Company of N.Y. Twenty-five Year Service in 14 k gold, 11 grams, 31 mm. Looped at the top for use as a watch fob. The reverse is blank with only the maker's mark, Dieges and Clust at the bottom and engraved with recipients name, town and years of service.  Edited by retiredkper
07/02/2015 2:06 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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Zoological Society of London award, 77mm in bronze (for keepers). By B. Wyon using designs by T. landseer. Eimer 1187, Brown 1272.  |
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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First American Fire Insurance Company of New York 25 Years, 14k gold. This one has a standing Native American with a bow very much like the standing soldier design of the Continental Fire Ins. Company medal shown here previously.  |
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United States
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Franklin Fire Insurance Company Of Philadelphia Named after Benjamin Franklin, who if my memory is correct, founded the first American Fire Insurance Company. This company issued a large sterling silver long service medal 56mm in diameter and weighing 73.78 grams. The first type has the die struck date "January 1st 1918" on the reverse and the date 1829 in the lower obverse legend. The second type has an engraved date on the reverse. On the obverse the date 1829 has been relocated nearly in between the wheels of the old hand pump water wagon and Franklin's portrait faces to the viewers right.   Edited by retiredkper
09/10/2015 4:16 pm
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United States
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International Paper Corporation 25 Year Medal The International Paper Corporation Quarter Century Society was established in 1950. Every employee with 25 years service qualified for membership in the society and got this attractive medal. The medal is bronze, 69.6mm in diameter and was made by the Medallic Art Co.   |
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United States
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Royal Standard Benefit Society service award for W. Osborne Croft, secretary of the society. Frosted silver mounted in a brass ring for suspension.   |
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Norway
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Norway has a standard service and a standard rule set 'for long and faithful service'. The medal has been initiated in 1888 and requires an employee to be in service for at least 30 years within the company. Here's a sample of the medal:  |
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United States
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Thanks Yarm and Ultra. Nice medals! guess I will have to get active again.
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H.J. Heinz Company Ten Year Service Medals Of all the companies that issued gold medals the HJ Heinz Company must have been the most generous for handing out 14K gold medals for only ten years of service. The obverse of each medal portrays the founder on the obverse and the recipient's name on the reverse. The design was by Emil Fuchs and the Medallic Arts Company of New York with the first medals being issued in 1922. Over the years it is interesting to watch the medals shrink in size and gold content. From what I have been able to observe the first medals had a round medal like loop and weighed in at 27.92 grams. By 1935 the medals had a fob like loop and weighed in at 19.74 grams. Nine years later weight was reduced to 17.35 grams. By 1952 the award was the size of a charm with two tiny diamonds and a weight of 3.66 grams. The most recent one I have seen is dated 1965 with a weight of only 2.17 grams of only 10K gold. One can only hope that the company had a good pension plan by then.   |
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United States
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McKesson & Robbins McKesson & Robbins Co. was an established company producing mostly nonprescription and over the counter type nutrition products until 1925 when it was bought out. The new owners used the firm as a front for bootlegging and eventually for a massive investment "Ponzi" scheme which only came to light after the crash of 1929. The company was then labeled the largest fraud of the 20th century. They did how ever at least show some appreciation to their long term employees. For example the McKesson & Robbins Company gave massive uniface cased bronze plaques which are 63 by 101.7 mm in size for 25 and 50 years of service. Illustrated here are two of those plaques both named to a lady, Hattie M. Martin. These were the "good old days" which I define as the time before the big drug corporations decided to bankrupt us all before we die.  |
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