thedeadpoint Posted October 17, 2008 Report Share Posted October 17, 2008 1. what's Peabody? 2. why isn't it listed? Cool pins, bill. I never noticed them in this thread before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted October 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2008 Peabody is a town bordering Salem. I believe the image is a church steeple of a church in the town square, still trying to track this down for sure. Pond cataloged all the known pieces in The Numismatist over a year in the early 1930s. He started by cataloging a collection gathered for a report to the state. I don't know that he actually considered pinbacks because none are included in his cataloging efforts. As I have been building my collection, so far I've only come across pieces he cataloged with the exception of the pinbacks. Maybe we are dealing with a change in collecting tastes of the broader definition of exonumia. In any event, I'm including pinbacks in my collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted November 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2008 Tercentenary Marine Committee Pond 36 Silver, 32 mm x 44 mm N.G. Woods & Co., Boston 175 struck Presented by the Boston Yacht Club for the Midsummer Series races held on August 13, 1930. Presented to Brutal Beasts 1st Division. In addition to appearing on Pond 1 (see first entry in the thread), the design appears on award plaques and silver trays and a book cover (embossed design). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted November 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2008 Pond 32 Gilt Bronze, 32 mm Cammall Badge Co. About 5000 struck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted November 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2008 Pond 25 Silver-plated Bronze, 32 mm Whitehead and Hoag Co. About 5000 struck Standard Commemorative medal modified to create a Host Badge for Winthrop's centennial celebration, August 2 - 9, 1930. The house on the reverse is one of the six oldest in New England. Built by Captain William Pierce, one of the original Winthrop land owners. His widow transfered the house to Deane Winthrop, son of Governor Winthrop, in 1647. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted December 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 An unlisted commemorative pin from Medford, Massachussets. Medford is north of Boston on the Mystic River. The pin shows a ship under construction in dry dock. The commemorative inscription is on the reverse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted December 7, 2008 Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 I love the image of the ship on dry-dock. How big is the pin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted December 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 Pond 10 Gilt Bronze, 32 mm Cammall Badge Co. 5000 Struck The old Powderhouse was built between 1700 and 1720 as a grist mill. Massachusetts purchased the structure in 1747 and converted it to a powder magazine. In 1822, the structure and land were sold to the Tufts family and it became a historic park in 1894. The medal pictured here has been incorporated into an American Legion badge. I later added the unmodified medal to my collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted December 7, 2008 Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 This is an neat collecting theme. The medals are beautiful. How many items can be id'd with Pond #s? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted December 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 I love the image of the ship on dry-dock. How big is the pin? 17 mm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted December 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 This is an neat collecting theme. The medals are beautiful. How many items can be id'd with Pond #s? 67 plus a few varieties -- so about 75. One could decide to exclude sports awards and reduce the numbers by a few. I've included pinbacks which he does not list, but I don't know why. I'm assuming they were not traditional exonumic items at the time? He does not cover the badges either. He worked from a collection that was formed by someone else, so who knows exactly what determined what was in and what was not. The theme, however, is nicely defined by 1930. I've also been collecting programs and commemorative books published for the occasion to provide background for the medals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted December 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 Pond 24 Bronze, 32 mm Whitehead & Hoag Co. 10,000 Struck The ship "Eagle" was purchased by the Massachusetts Bay Company and rename Arbella in honor of the wife of Isaac Johnson and daughter of the Earl of Lincoln. The Arbella transported Governor Winthrop, a number of colonists, and the company charter from England to Salem in 1630. Two copies of the charter had been signed by the king, one sent to Massachusetts and one retained in England. With the arrival of the "England" copy of the charter in 1630, governance of the colony was formally transferred from England to Massachusetts, a step in creating independence for the colony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted January 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 Pond 23 Gilt Bronze, 32 mm Whitehead and Hoag 3000 Produced An interesting image of an Indian, but somehow it does not quite work as the artist planned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted January 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 Pond 18 Gilt Bronze, 32 mm Whitehead and Hoag 5000 Produced City of Fitchburg medal. The large stone on the reverse was known as the Rollstone. It was deposited on top of the hill by a glacier in the last ice age. It has since been moved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted January 24, 2009 Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 This is a nice series on this theme. Keep us updated. Are you going to do your own ebook? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted January 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 This is a nice series on this theme. Keep us updated. Are you going to do your own ebook? Its been in the back of my mind. One of those retirement projects that I'm looking forward to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 Good luck wih it. This should be an interesting piece of work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted February 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 A small brass pin, not in Pond. Somewhere one crosses a line that is no longer exonumia. I think everyone's line is different. I've included this piece because I've included other pinbacks: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted February 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 Pond 6 Bronze, 32 mm Cammall Badge Co. 2500 struck Town of Holden First Meeting House. In 1736, the town of Holden built their first house of worship. It was torn down 50 years later because of advanced decay and a new church built on the site. Th original building is pictured on this medal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 Boy, were they ever proud of their 300th anniversary. I like the rectangle pin a lot, bill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted February 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2009 I like the rectangle pin a lot, bill. Yeah. Whether I thought it fit or not, I was going to buy it. I like it as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted April 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2009 Pond 62 Silver-toned Bronze, 62 mm Straker and Freeman, North Attleboro believed fairly large number struck Perhaps harder to locate than Pond assumed. and Pond 60 Bronze, toned, 26 mm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 Pond 26Tumbled nickel finish, 30 mm Whitehead & Hoag Co. 22,000 struck Obverse: The seal of Worcester, WORCESTER'S / CELEBRATION / OF MASSACHUSETTS / BAY / TERCENTENARY. Reverse: Pine Tree shilling copy. Pond notes these were said to be widely distributed to school children. Added by lanceroy: Yes, they were distributed to schoolchildren with a short information sheet detailing the history of the coin. It also states that these coins were given to all Worcestor children from grade 2 through junior high by Mayor O'hara. My dad was one of those children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted April 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 Thanks Lance. I like knowing the history of the pieces. It makes them more interesting. Added by lanceroy: Yes, they were distributed to schoolchildren with a short information sheet detailing the history of the coin. It also states that these coins were given to all Worcestor children from grade 2 through junior high by Mayor O'hara. My dad was one of those children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted May 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 Danvers, Massachusetts Brass Shell Pinback Whitehead and Hoag, Newark, NJ Danvers was the site of the one of the witch scare events and one of the original "witch" houses still stands. I've not yet done enough research to determine who is pictured on the pinback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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