A recent purchase, brass so-called dollar, although not aluminum. The medal is known in aluminum, but I have yeat to encounter one. I passed on silver pieces several times and finally broke down and bought one in brass. I guess living so close to SF and having walked part of California Street was just too much of an attraction. I also bid on one suspended from a brass, SOUVENIR pinbck bar, but I was sniped in the final 5 seconds. Oh well. Hibler and Kappen could find no information about who issued the medal or why (for profit or to raise funds for the relief effort). The images on both sides correspond to popular photographs made in the days following the earthquake and fire.

I find items from that event most fascinating. I have a watch which has come down through the family which was damaged by the subsequent fire and recovered by my great great grandmother. If only the tie to the San Fran earthquake and fire could help it's value. Without the fire damage it would be a $10 K watch, now only a few hundred

Nice one Bill! I like medals with realistic views for the historical reference they provide.

I've never come across that one before. Probably not surprisingly since Kirkcaldy is hardly the hub of things numismatic.

Out of interest what size (roughly) is your medal?

Ian

A really nice historic piece.

I beg to differ, I have seen a couple of tokens, and even some communion tokens from the hub of the Kingdom.

It is the size of a US silver dollar (Morgan and Peace dollars).

I recently added a related medal, generally counted as part of the earthquake souvenirs:



Then I found the tin badge pictured below. The badges were used as entry to the rebuilding celebration held on New Year's Eve 1908. The composite image shows the badge, headline from a newspaper article about the celebration and the newspaper inset showing the badge.