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Sculpted by Edward R. Grove, this 1966 issue for the HOF for Great Americans at NYU recognizes the immigrant founder of the state of Pennsylvania, William Penn.   |
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Sculpted by Edward R. Grove, this 1966 issue for the HOF for Great Americans at NYU recognizes the immigrant founder of the state of Pennsylvania, William Penn. Outstanding!  |
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Sculptor Eleanor Platt celebrates the career of Massachusetts native Rufus Choate. He was primarily a courtroom lawyer whose cases were, for the most part, tried before juries. Per the insert accompanying the medal, Choate "had a sweeping command of language, a penetrating logical faculty, and a pragmatic, persusive manner in courtroom presentation." Issued in 1973.   ( Does anyone else see a resemblance to Keith Richards . . .  ? ) |
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Major General and future POTUS, Andrew Jackson was elected to the HOF for Great Americans in 1910. His medal, sculpted by Michael Lantz, was issued in 1971. Lantz' comments on the reverse design: Quote:
On the reverse is an eagle, representing his periods of service to the Nation. The map at the top is of the frontier of his time. Militiamen of the period of the War of 1812 appear at the right. A pioneer woman and Scout are at the left. Below the eagle are map symbols. The star represents forts; the dcrossed swords represent scrimmages; the wigwam represent Indian villages, and beneath are the streams crossed to reach them   |
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John Lathrop Motley, historian and diplomat, as depicted by Sculptor C. Paul Jennewein. In his desciption of the reverse, the sculuptor wrote: Quote:
"Being a noted author, I chose "Cleo, the Muse of History" to represent the work of Motley. In her hands, she holds thye symbol of literature, the book and candle. The golbe denotes his many travels. The Netherlands Coat of Arms signifies his great interest in that country."   Motley's abbreviated bio:  Motley was elected to the HOF in 1910. The medal was issued in 1970. |
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Fantastic examples! |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's bitter attack on slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, was originally published serially by the National Era, an anti-slavery newspaper in Washington, DC. In 1852, UTC was published as a book. Within five years it had sold half a million copies in the US alone. The book also was in great demand in England, and was eventually translated into at least 23 languages and published in innumerable editions.   The medal was sculpted by Michael Lantz and issued in 1975. |
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Lovely example! |
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Do you feel how the style of reverses has changed? Which reverse do you prefer?   |
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WHC: I don't understand how "the style of reverses has changed." Changed from what ? You've presented two distinct works of medallic art by separate artists of separate subjects.
In what context are you framing the 'change' ?
I view each as stand alone items. Is the medal including Lafayette part of a series ? What does the obverse look like ?
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Don't you think that medals have become simpler at the present stage? Reverses more like a kind of eclecticism of details, which themselves. Without connections. Roughly speaking, medals have become more primitive. No such feeling?
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Nice examples. Errers and Varietys.
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Here, for example, is a medal for which it is not customary to distinguish the obverse and reverse. They are artistically equivalent. There is no secondary here.   Pardon. Not MACo, really, but my beloved Whitehead and Hoag, but I can find at my place and MACo. |
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