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My 16th Heraldic Art Medal  but it is a duplicate, the price was right and the condition is excellent. Here's a link to my other one just like it with some historical notes. No sense repeating myself. http://goccf.com/t/301479&whichpage=25#2662650Edited by TNG
04/09/2018 10:00 am
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My 17th Heraldic Art Medals are the same. These are kind of hard to get and I picked them up at half the usual selling price. Oh well, you know what they say, "Two Pocahontas medals in the hand is better than one in the bush" or something like that? I'll rework these images later as they are not that good and this will magically update with the new improved pictures.   In 1613, the English captured Pocahontas and held her hostage for a year as they tried to negotiate peace with the Algonquin Natives. While in custody, Pocahontas learned English customs and spent time with John Rolfe, a religious man who encouraged her to convert to Christianity. By the time Powhatan agreed to pay the ransom, Pocahontas had decided to stay with the English and marry Rolfe, who said the match was "for the good of the plantation, the honor of our country, for the glory of God, for mine own salvation." Pocahontas was baptized and took the English name Rebecca. Powhatan consented to the marriage, believing it would promote peace, and sent relatives to witness the ceremony held in Jamestown's church.  Pocahontas gave birth to the couple's only son, Thomas, in January 1615. The following year, the family traveled to England to help promote the colonies. There, Pocahontas caused a sensation in public events, balls and for an audience of the royal family. In March 1617, before Rolfe could return to Virginia, Pocahontas became ill and died. She was 22. I recently bought a Pocahontas Coal Co. Mercer County W. VA bronze medal and some historical notes can be read there. http://goccf.com/t/301479&whichpage=29#2681575Update: Just got a message that Lot 201 here cannot be found. Good news is I was offered another in place of it, plus a full refund.
I asked for one of the 1961 Dag Hammarakjold Solider of Peace medals that she did not sell.
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"Two Pocahontas medals in the hand is better than one in the bush" ... apparently one is in the bush!  Edited by TNG
04/09/2018 11:45 am
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You have made much progress on your Heraldic Art Medals.  |
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This is my 18th Heraldic Art Medal ( The FREE gift from a seller for losing the #201 Pocahontas that I was also reimbursed for as well. )  Dag Hammarskjöld 29 July 1905 - 18 September 1961 was a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. Hammarskjöld was the youngest to have held the post. Additionally, he is one of only four people to be awarded a posthumous Nobel Prize and was the only United Nations Secretary-General to die while in office.  He was killed in a DC-6 airplane crash en route to cease-fire negotiations during the Congo Crisis. Hammarskjöld was en route when his Douglas DC-6 airliner crashed with no survivors near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). Hammarskjöld and 15 others perished in the crash, whose circumstances are still unclear. There is some evidence that suggests the plane was shot down. Former U.S. President Harry Truman commented that Hammarskjöld Quote:
"was on the point of getting something done when they killed him. Notice that I said 'when they killed him'."
Over the years, multiple claims have been made that the plane was shot down, and that Hammarskjöld was actually killed in an assassination plot involving some combination of the CIA, an M-I6 jet, a Belgian Mining Company and a South African paramilitary unit, because he was pushing for the Congo's independence, which would have hurt the interests of any of those forces. Documents suggesting CIA involvement came to light when the South African National Intelligence Agency turned over a file that contained a supposed statement from CIA director Allen Dulles that: Quote:
"Dag is becoming troublesome . and should be removed."  Edited by TNG
04/10/2018 11:20 am
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Nice addition with some interesting history. I have some Dag Hammarskjöld stamps in my old Harris album and vaguely remember them prompting me to look him up in my World Book encyclopedia. I do not seem to recall any controversy over his death, but am not surprised if it was overlooked by the World Book article. I still have that set so I might need to see how good or bad my memory is.  |
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1904 OFFICIAL SOUVENIR MEDAL
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Looks to have been somebody's pocket piece and I like for that, and the price was a steal! Obverse: Conjoined busts of Napoleon & Jefferson Reverse: Relief map of U. S. with Louisiana Purchase across that portion representing extent of purchase Louisiana Territory 1803 1,000,000 Square Miles $15,000,000 HK-299 - Silver 21 mm These visitors must have had a whale of a time! A full size "Blue whale" and skeleton of the same were on display in the taxidermy exhibit.  The massive "Obervation Wheel", later named the "Ferris Wheel" after its creator on site could carry as many as 2000 people at a time.  Among many notable people, Scott Joplin was there, Thomas Edison, Geronimo and even Helen Keller gave a speech! I suggest you meet me in Saint Louie, Louie "Meet Me at the Fair" and find some reading on your own. There's too much to write here.I do find myself watching Meet Me in St. Louis with Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien around Christmas time every year. Yes, I confess, I have it recorded. A musical film released in 1944. Divided into a series of seasonal vignettes, starting with Summer 1903, it relates the story of a year in the life of the Smith family in St. Louis, leading up to the opening of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, more commonly referred to as the World's Fair, in the spring of 1904.
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This one is a sore spot for me because St. Louis stole the 1904 Olympics from Chicago.  |
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You're gonna hafta let that go at some point jbuckster. LOL
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Never!  This is why Chicago and St. Louis have the best rivalries! Blackhawks versus Blues! Cubs versus Cardinals! Bears versus... versus... oh yeah, no more NFL for you!  |
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This is why Chicago and St. Louis have the best rivalries! Deep dish pizza vs cracker crust |
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My 19th Heraldic Art Medal  ( where else to go but The Santa Fe Trail or The Oregon Trail after The Louisiana Purchase? )    The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century transportation route through central North America that connected Independence, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico. Pioneered in 1821 by William Becknell, it served as a vital commercial highway until the introduction of the railroad to Santa Fe in 1880. Santa Fe was near the end of the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, which carried trade from Mexico City. The route skirted the northern edge and crossed the north-western corner of Comancheria, the territory of the Comanches, who demanded compensation for granting passage to the trail, and represented another market for American traders. Comanche raiding farther south in Mexico isolated New Mexico, making it more dependent on the American trade, and provided the Comanches with a steady supply of horses for sale. By the 1840s, trail traffic along the Arkansas Valley was so heavy that bison herds could not reach important seasonal grazing land, contributing to their collapse, which in turn hastened the decline of Comanche power in the region. The American army used the trail route in 1846 for the invasion of New Mexico during the Mexican-American War. After the U.S. acquisition of the Southwest ending the war, the trail helped open the region to U.S. economic development and settlement, playing a vital role in the expansion of the U.S. into the lands it had acquired. Of course there is the 1940 film "Santa Fe Trail" starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan, Van Heflin, Alan Hale and other regular stars of the time.  Edited by TNG
04/11/2018 7:56 pm
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I can't believe my saved movie recording schedule recorded that very movie yesterday on TCM.
So last night I was up til 2:30 PM watching it. It was quite historically incorrect in many ways, in others it was close with the Harper Ferry - John Brown part and the hanging near the end.
I'll have to see what the 1941 Santa Fe movie with Randolph Scott is like. LOL
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1933 WOLFVILLE WESTERN DAYS - TUCSON ARIZ.
so-called bronze dollar Alfred Henry Lewis (1855-1914) published a trio of books. Wolfville (1897) Wolfville Days (1902) and Wolfville Nights (1902) Each is a collection of sketches set in a fictional frontier settlement in the Arizona desert. Ominously called Wolfville, it was no doubt meant to emulate the very real town of Tombstone.  Illustrations by Frederic Remington are found throughout these books. I recognized the reverse of the medal as his style and did the research to discover these books and the Author. Apparently the design on the reverse is similar to this illustration found in one of these books, only from a different angle with a few differences in pose. You know I will be looking for these books. I also found a fourth book titled Wolfville Folks so perhaps there are more than three.  So there is a connection between this medal and the books and Frederic Remington as well. I will be soaking this medal and using the magic touch on it and replacing these images with an improved presentation.
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04/12/2018 10:52 pm
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