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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.

Bronze medal of the German Empire (HCR139220)

Period

Modern

Person

Karl Goetz

Mint

Munich (Modern)

Dating

1918

Obverse

WELT RICHTER, Group of seven male figures, discussing.

Reverse

FRISS ODER STIRB, Two hands from right: right hand carrying a crown and left hand small statue of Nike; reaching out to eagle seated on oak branch with snake entangled.

Medal of the German Empire (HCR139246)

Period

Modern

Person

Karl Goetz

Mint

Munich (Modern)

Dating

1918

Obverse

. 1918. / HOLLAN -- DIA, Uncle Sam and John Bull walking on field of tulips to left, both carrying sailing vessels under their arms, the nearest named HOLLANDIA.

Reverse

NOT . LEHRT STEHLEN, Dutch sailing vessel surrounded by armed cruisers

Bronze medal of the German Empire (HCR139249)

Period

Modern

Person

Karl Goetz

Mint

Munich (Modern)

Dating

1918

Obverse

WAFFENSTILLSTANDSBEDINGUNGEN / in exergue: FOCH HAT DAS / WORT, German Michael on ground his legs cuffed by Uncle Sam, John Bull sitting on his stomach, smoking a pipe and holding Foch who put his rifle under Michael's chin

Reverse

EIN 70 MILLIONEN VOLK / LEIDET- / ABER STIRBT NICHT, A group of 17 arms and fists.

Bronze medal of the third French Republic (HCR139254)

Period

Modern

Person

René Baudichon

Dating

1918

Obverse

ULTRIX AMERICA JURIS 1917 USA 1918 / R. BAUDICHON, (Statue of) Liberty rising out of sea with a sword

Reverse

LUSITANIA MAY 7 1915, View of the Lusitania sinking, above, a child drowning

Bronze medal of the third French Republic (HCR9320)

Period

Modern

Person

Georges-Henri Prud'Homme

Mint

Paris

Dating

1918

Obverse

F.FOCH.MARECHAL.DE.FRANCE, Bust to left

Reverse

RETHONDES SIGNATURE DE L'ARMISTICE 8-11 NOVEMBRE 1918, Railway car in woods

British commemorative badge (HCR95738)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

c. 1920 - 1930

Obverse

MEMBER OF LOWER AVON NAVIGATION TRUST / SAVE SHAKESPEARE'S AVON, ¾ left bust of William Shakespeare

American commemorative plaque (HCR96485)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, Meta(l) Products Manufacturing Co., New York, ?J. JusKg?

Dating

1919

Obverse

Shakespeare / 19©19 / M. P. M. CO., bust of William Shakespeare, ¾ left; "Shakespeare" in the style of a signature

Iron medal of the Weimar Republic (HCR139251)

Period

Modern

Person

Karl Goetz

Mint

Munich (Modern)

Dating

1919

Obverse

DIE . HISTORISCHE . GOLDENE FEDER / in field: VON DEN / DEVTSCHEN / NICHT BENVTZT / on scroll: FRIEDEN / VON / VERSAIL / LES / signatures of Wilson, Lloyd Geroge, Clemenceau, Muller and Bell, Scroll and quill with ink well left

Reverse

DER 28. JUNI / GDENKTAG ZWEIER / WELTVERBRECHEN / in exergue: 1914 - 1919, Two hands, one emerging from the ground holding a torch, the other descending from heaven fingers in a stream

Medal of the Kingdom of Belgium (HCR9331)

Period

Modern

Mint

Brussels (Modern)

Dating

1919

Obverse

MARIE DEPAGE -- EDITH CAVELL, Jugate busts of Depage and Cavell to left with laurel branch behind.

Bronze medal of the United Kingdom (HCR9335)

Period

Modern

Dating

1919

Obverse

HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOR / GEORGE SAINTON / KAYE BUTTERWORTH, Britiannia standing to right, holding a trident and wreath, a lion in the foreground

Bronze medal of the German Empire (HCR139247)

Period

Modern

Person

Karl Goetz

Mint

Munich (Modern)

Dating

1920

Obverse

AM / VERHANDLUNGS TISCH IN SPA, Fehrenbach being forced to sign the disarmament and delivery of coal document by Millerand and Lloyd George

Reverse

.5-.16 JULI 1920, The axe of the Entente buried in the stump of Germany with the cloud of Bolshevism hanging overhead

British medal (HCR95601)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, Percy Metcalfe

Dating

20th century

Obverse

THE SHAKESPEARE MEDAL, draped bust of William Shakespeare, half-left, bare headed, closely after the Droeshout portrait; signed monogram of the artist

Reverse

THE JAPAN SOCIETY TO / THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKIO, fictitious map of the British Isles juxtaposed with the Japanese archipelago; various sea-creatures, some real; on the bezel, flags of the United Kingdom and Japan

American plaquette (HCR95057)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Mint

MACO=Medallic Art Company, New York (Modern)

Dating

1929

Obverse

SHAKESPEARE / H / 1929, bust of William Shakespeare, left, depicted wearing a fur coat and starched high ruff

American plaquette (HCR95065)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Mint

MACO=Medallic Art Company, New York (Modern)

Dating

1929

Obverse

SHAKESPEARE / H / 1929, bust of William Shakespeare, left, depicted wearing a fur coat and starched high ruff

British prize medal (HCR95745)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

1934

Obverse

ROYAL · ACADEMY · OF ·DRAMATIC · ART, draped bust of William Shakespeare, bare head facing, resting upon a cushion, with paper in left hand, quill in right; closely follows the Stratford memorial bust

Reverse

JOSEPH HOLLAND / FEB. 27ᵀᴴ 1934, a wreath of laurel surrounding inscription