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Miscellaneous Tokens and Medals
inscription: 1873 HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE 1948. The
weight is housed in its original cardboard box with a pasted on
color picture of the Nieuw Amsterdam. (F)
454.
MR.ANDMRS.THOMASJ.WATSONPORTRAITMEDAL-
IBM ONE HUNDRED PER CENT CLUB, 1954.
Murtha
191.
83mm. Bronze. Unsigned, but ascribed to Paul Manship,
Sc. (MACO) About Uncirculated with some obverse spots as
shown. Obverse with jugate busts to the left of IBM President
Thomas J. Watson and his wife. Reverse: In a semi-circle at top,
PRESENTED B HY THE OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS OF/
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
TO/ RECTANGULAR CARTOUCHE WITH ENGRAVED
NAME OF J. E. ST. CYR. Below: IN RECOGNITION OF
YOUR/ PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT/ AS A MEMBER OF
THE/ IBM 1954/ HUNDRED PERCENT CLUB/ DURING
THE YEAR DEDICATED TO/ MR. AND MRS./ THOMAS J.
WATSON. FORTIETH IBMANNIVERSARY.
One of the few Manship medals that went unsigned. Very rare in
the marketplace. We have seen one eBay offering but have never
Lot 453 (reduced)
Lot 454 (reduced)
before offered one ourselves. (G-H)
455.
ANS CENTENNIAL MEDAL, 1958.
Miller 48.
89mm.
Bronze. Laura Gardin Fraser, Sc. (MACO). Choice Uncirculated.
According to Ms. Fraser, the obverse “... shows the potential
archeologist who
having broken a stone asunder, discovers
a petrified animal form in one half and in the other, a perfect
impression of it, or the die. Since tablets, coins and other medals
constitute the authority for the historical data and our earliest
civilizations expressed themselves in terms of the particular
mythologies, on the reverse of the medal I used the Pegasus as
a symbol of the arts, to indicate as in a vision, that numismatics
was a science from the era of Pegasus to the geo-physical year
of the harnessing of the atom. To the fore of this vision are the
artisans who are in the act of forging a medal using such tools as
are the basis of modern medal making.” (G)
456.
ALASKASTATEHOODMEDAL INGOLD BYHERALDIC
ART CO., 1959.
Gould-Bressett 107. 30.5mm. 18k Gold. (18;6
grams) Reeded edge. According the William Swoger who has
written extensively about this Heraldic Art series, the obverse
was likely the product of Walter Sinz and the reverse that of
Steven Rebeck. A superb Gem Uncirculated! We cannot imagine
Lot 455 (reduced)