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May 31 2006, 05:45 AM
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![]() Feeling younger everyday. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,094 Joined: 10-December 05 From: California Member No.: 589 OmniCoin |
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.
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May 31 2006, 10:56 AM
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![]() unentitled and not chosen ;(~ ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 8,124 Joined: 14-June 05 From: Krasny Vostok Member No.: 38 |
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
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May 31 2006, 11:55 AM
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![]() collecting the eclectic ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,202 Joined: 7-August 05 From: Fife, Scotland Member No.: 298 |
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 I like medals with realistic views for the historical reference they provide.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 |
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May 31 2006, 12:47 PM
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![]() Procrastinare, ergo sum! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 46,934 Joined: 13-June 05 From: USA Member No.: 8 OmniCoin BanknoteBank |
A really nice historic piece.
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May 31 2006, 12:52 PM
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May 31 2006, 05:32 PM
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May 9 2010, 04:33 AM
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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.
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