GREAT BRITAIN Queen Victoria Jubilee badge 1887
$65.00
GREAT BRITAIN, badge, 1887, Victoria old head L in central medallion on Maltese cross shaped planchet, on the arms: BORN 1819 CROWNED 1838 MARRIED 1840 JUBILEE 1887, blank, square loop at top, bronze, 37mm, crude, VF
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Description
There were many medallic products made for Queen Victoria’s Jubilee in 1887. Chatgpt suggests J. R. Gaunt and Son, of Bormingham, as a likely manufacturer.
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.
