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Pillar of the Community
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Anyone here have any corporate or private employee long service medals in their collections? Currently companies give out lapel pins or cash bonuses if anything but in the old days some very impressive medals were presented on milestone anniversaries. I have collected these for years and have written a few articles about some in various publications. If there is any interest here I will show some of mine when I am qualified to post scans on this site.
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Pillar of the Community
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The Japanese auto parts company she worked for, still gave the pins out and the had to turn in last years one. When she was down sized, before they (security) would let her leave her desk she had to produce the pin and turn it in.
They would send them back to corporate in Japan and place them on a long drape hanging in the atrium of the company. Supposedly to honor their past employee's
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retiredkper, you should be able to attach images to your posts now. Instead of using the Quick Reply at the bottom, click on the Reply to Topic link that is above that area. If the image is too large, you can use the Image Optimizer. That link is on the reply page.
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Thanks Fuzzy, I will try that. Guess I remembered the rules wrong.
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The most common long service medals are issued by United States Steel Corp. which issued medals in bronze for 10,15,and 20 years. In silver for 25-45 years and in gold for 50 years and up! They were issued in 5 year increments and employees got to keep them all unlike that cheap aforementioned Japanese company. The medals come with a round loop, a flat loop and no loop versions. The looped versions were issued as fobs and the unlooped version could be worn in a bezel.  |
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United States
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Obverse and reverse designs are the same on all medals. Here is the reverse which has a group of workers,... sorry no picture this time. Worked well the first time!
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Maybe this time it worked.  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Here's a couple from French assurance companies.   |
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Pillar of the Community
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Very nice Yarm, I really like the table of coins on the first one.
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This is the most spectacular private long service medal that I have ever seen. I call it the Shaw medal and published it in the Journal of the Orders and Medals Society of America back in the Jan.-Feb. 2010 issue. The medal is 30.8mm wide and 44mm tall, 14k gold medal weighs 27.7 grams and is inset with 34 small diamonds and one large ruby.  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Wow, that's a beauty! I wonder what role the individual played in the organization to merit such a valuable medal. Is there any evidence that there are others similar to that one? I can't afford gold stuff so here's an example of a copper/bronze medal for long service by a zoo keeper from the Zoological Society of London. (Management folks apparently got the silver version.) BHM 1272, 77mm  |
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Fantastic animals design medal. The Shaw medal is unique I believe. He started off in 1898 as the lawyer representing the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company and ended up on the Wisconsin Electric Power Company Board of Directors in addition to being the senior partner of his law firm.
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