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I recently bought a large lot which I am sending to be slabbed, some duplicates which I will sell. All are 45mm and higher. Some mintages are very low.

 

1891 Bern Burgdorf Shooting Festival

 

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1927 Brugg Shooting Festival (Rare)

 

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1949 Geneva Shooting Club

 

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1886 Neuchatel Shooting Festival

 

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1898 Neuchatel Shooting Festival

 

Silver

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Bronze Silver (rare)

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Bronze

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1891 Zurich Winterthur Shooting Festival

 

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1900 Zurich Uster Shooting Festival

 

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Is this guy(Stillhard) boasting or what! as the actress said to the bishop "thats what they all say".

 

Great set of medals & beautiful photos but where are 'The ladies with big hats' Zohar? So many guns & if no guns crossbows, anyone would think these were really meant to be about shooting.

 

hiho to the rescue, she is cute.....& not a gun or crossbow in sight.

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hiho to the rescue, she is cute.....& not a gun or crossbow in sight.

 

Departing from my usual "ladies in big hats" theme here's a fairly rare 1900 medal from Chur in a nicer than average bezel...

 

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ooh the reverse is definitely the side that should be featured.

 

But the man portrayed is Benedikt Fontana, a Swiss national hero who died at the Battle of Calven in 1499 during the Swabian war, the "Frisch avf vnd dran(daran)" are his words(though wounded) extolling his men on to victory :)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Calven It would be like putting William Tell or George Washington on the reverse, though like you I like the reverse :bthumbsup:

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Though I do like the reverse I bought this for the obverse and agree with Constanius that the correct side is featured.

 

I wanted this as a companion piece to this 1899 Langenthal, also by Homberg...

 

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Though I do like the reverse I bought this for the obverse and agree with Constanius that the correct side is featured.

 

I wanted this as a companion piece to this 1899 Langenthal, also by Homberg...

 

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Just got one of those in the post on Friday, my very firstest shooting medal.

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