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Medals & Decorations

The Ashmolean Museum has a very good collection of British historical medals, dating from the Tudor period to the present day, with particularly high concentrations for the 18th and 19th centuries. Its continental and world holdings are very diverse, with some particularly significant medals of the Italian Renaissance; Germany and the Low Countries in the Renaissance and Baroque age; the papacy; etc. The decorations are mostly British and date from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century.

South African commemorative medal - Churchill and Smuts Commemorative Medal (HCR98632)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, A. Tromp, David MacGregor, Jan Smuts

Dating

1966

Obverse

WINSTON CHURCHILL 1874-1965, head of Sir Winston Churchill, left, in inner circle, legend and two laurel branches beside the dates outside

Reverse

JAN CHRISTIAAN SMUTS 1870-1950, head of Smuts to right, in inner circle, legend and two laurel branches beside the dates outside

British commemorative medal - Churchill and the 25th Anniversary of the Atlantic Charter Commemorative Medal (HCR98683)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Michael Rizzello

Mint

Johnson, Matthey & Co., Ltd., London (Modern), John Pinches (Medallists) Ltd., London (Modern)

Dating

1966

Obverse

· WINSTON S. CHURCHILL · AUGUST 9th 1941 / RIZZELLO / C, full-length figure of Sir Winston Churchill seated on ship's deck facing slightly to left, right hand extended to Roosevelt

Reverse

THE ATLANTIC CHARTER / Placentia Bay Meeting / 25ᵗʰ ANNIVERSARY, Battleship H. M. S. "Prince of Wales" to left in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 25th Anniversary of the Atlantic Charter Commemorative Medal (HCR98684)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Michael Rizzello

Mint

Johnson, Matthey & Co., Ltd., London (Modern), John Pinches (Medallists) Ltd., London (Modern)

Dating

1966

Obverse

· FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT · AUGUST 9th 1941 / RIZZELLO / C, full-length figure of Franklin D. Roosevelt seated on ship's deck facing slightly to right, right hand extended to Churchill

Reverse

THE ATLANTIC CHARTER / Placentia Bay Meeting / 25ᵗʰ ANNIVERSARY, Battleship H. M. S. "Prince of Wales" to left in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland

British commemorative medal - Churchill and the 25th Anniversary of the Atlantic Charter Commemorative Medal (HCR98685)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Michael Rizzello

Mint

Johnson, Matthey & Co., Ltd., London (Modern), John Pinches (Medallists) Ltd., London (Modern)

Dating

1966

Obverse

· WINSTON S. CHURCHILL · AUGUST 9th 1941 / RIZZELLO / C, full-length figure of Sir Winston Churchill seated on ship's deck facing slightly to left, right hand extended to Roosevelt

Reverse

THE ATLANTIC CHARTER / PLACENTIA BAY MEETING / 25ᵗʰ ANNIVERSARY, Battleship H. M. S. "Prince of Wales" to left in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 25th Anniversary of the Atlantic Charter Commemorative Medal (HCR98686)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Michael Rizzello

Mint

Johnson, Matthey & Co., Ltd., London (Modern), John Pinches (Medallists) Ltd., London (Modern)

Dating

1966

Obverse

· FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT · AUGUST 9th 1941 / RIZZELLO / C, full-length figure of Franklin D. Roosevelt seated on ship's deck facing slightly to right, right hand extended to Churchill

Reverse

THE ATLANTIC CHARTER / Placentia Bay Meeting / 25ᵗʰ ANNIVERSARY, Battleship H. M. S. "Prince of Wales" to left in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland

American memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98942)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Rolf Beck

Dating

1966

Obverse

SIR WINSTON S. CHURCHILL / 1874 / 1965, bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly to left

Reverse

NEVER ... WAS SO MUCH OWED BY SO MANY TO SO FEW / CCS-66, Allied military cemetery with grassy foreground, rows of grave-marker crosses, clouds, treeline, British, French and American flags in background; Churchill quotation

American memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98971)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Rolf Beck

Dating

1966

Obverse

SIR WINSTON S. CHURCHILL / 1874 / 1965, bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly to left

Reverse

British commemorative medal - Churchill and the Dunkirk Evacuation 25th Anniversary Commemorative Medal (HCR98994)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Presidential Art Medals Inc., Englewood, Ohio, Edward R. Grove

Mint

MACO=Medallic Art Company, New York (Modern)

Dating

1966

Obverse

THE RIGHT / HONOURABLE / WINSTON / CHURCHILL / E. R. GROVE / © PAM, quarter-length bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly to left

Reverse

DUNKIRK / MAY 26 · JUNE 4 / 1940, scene at Dunkirk: evacuation ship at anchor, two troop-filled small boats rowing out to it, airplanes above, smoke and shell explosions in background

British commemorative medal - Churchill and the Dunkirk Evacuation 25th Anniversary Commemorative Medal (HCR98996)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Presidential Art Medals Inc., Englewood, Ohio, Edward R. Grove

Mint

MACO=Medallic Art Company, New York (Modern)

Dating

1966

Obverse

THE RIGHT / HONOURABLE / WINSTON / CHURCHILL / E. R. GROVE / © PAM, quarter-length bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly to left

Reverse

DUNKIRK / MAY 26 · JUNE 4 / 1940, scene at Dunkirk: evacuation ship at anchor, two troop-filled small boats rowing out to it, airplanes above, smoke and shell explosions in background

Canadian memorial plaque - Churchill Memorial Plaque (HCR95073)

Period

Modern

Person

Dora de Pédery-Hunt, Sir Winston Churchill, Industrial Fine Castings, Ltd., Toronto

Dating

1967

Obverse

CHURCHILL / Hunt, solitary seated figure of Sir Winston Churchill, as seen from the rear; artist's signature; roughened technique

Reverse

Dora de Pédery-Hunt, signature of the artist etched on

Canadian commemorative medallic plaque (HCR95081)

Period

Modern

Person

Dora de Pédery-Hunt, Sir Winston Churchill

Dating

1967-1969

Obverse

Hunt 67, portrait bust of Sir Winston Churchill, 3/4 facing, executed in the roughened technique; signature of the artist etched on

British commemorative medal - the 6th Britannia Commemorative Society medal (HCR95762)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, William M. Gardner

Dating

1967

Obverse

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE of STRATFORD VPON AVON / 1564- / 1616, portrait of William Shakespeare, facing; surrounded by wreath of laurel, tied at bottom

Reverse

All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits / and their entrances; / AS YOU LIKE IT : ACT II ScVII / BCS-6 / 1967 / W.M. GARDNER, view of an Elizabethan theatre with theatregoers in the pit

British commemorative medal - the 6th Britannia Commemorative Society medal (HCR95763)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, William M. Gardner

Dating

1967

Obverse

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE of STRATFORD VPON AVON / 1564- / 1616, portrait of William Shakespeare, facing; surrounded by wreath of laurel, tied at bottom

Reverse

Churchill Memorial and Library Commemorative Medal (HCR96922)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Oscar F. Klinke, Bates & Klinke, Inc., Attleboro, Mass.

Dating

1967

Obverse

WINSTON CHURCHILL, bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly right

Reverse

· WINSTON CHURCHILL MEMORIAL · FULTON MO / STERLING, view of the St. Mary, Aldermanbury, Church as reconstructed as part of the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo.; clouds behind; Bates & Klinke monogram

American memorial medal - Churchill Memorial and Library Commemorative Medal (HCR96943)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Oscar F. Klinke, William R. Scott, Jr., Bates & Klinke, Inc., Attleboro, Mass.

Dating

1967

Obverse

WINSTON CHURCHILL, bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly right

Reverse

· WINSTON CHURCHILL MEMORIAL · FULTON MO, view of the St. Mary, Aldermanbury, Church as reconstructed as part of the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo.; clouds behind