FRANCE Chateau-Thierry Medal 1918
$150.00
FRANCE, medal, 1918, Chateau-Thierry Medal, Obverse: busts L, WASHINGTON LAFAYETTE, GASTON LAVRILLIER PARIS ART, on hanger: CHATEAU THIERRY COTE 204, Reverse: radiant Legion d’Honneur Knight’s Badge, CHATEAU THIERRY 18 JUILLET 1918 LA VICTOIRE APPARAIT, bronze, 23mm, old baby blue watered silk ribbon without hanging device, On the web are some silver versions of this medal, asking like $400.00. I didn’t see any bronze versions. XF
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Description
This was one of the earliest non-government French commemorative medals made for veterans.
In France uniform detail and wearable awards became immensely popular from the 1850s to the 1950s, after which people got out of the habit. Everybody was going about their business wearing their award medal. Showed who they were, in a way.
Medals, awards, decoration, insignia, documents, equipment, of military, police, private, and irregular military style organizations. We sometimes sell small weapons but we do not sell working firearms. If a thing happens to be military but is hundreds of years old I stop thinking of it as a military thing and start thinking of it as a relic or an antiquity. I suppose that means that “militaria” really starts around the middle of the 19th century or so, when uniforms became normal. Does that seem right to you?
Over the decades I’ve been selling collectibles my market has been about 97% coins, 2% paper money, 1% everything else.
