NORWAY medallet for Independence late 19th century
$35.00
NORWAY, medallet, no date (late 19th century?), Obverse: crowned arms over wreath, Reverse: 17. MAI 1814 in wreath, looped, brass, 21mm, Independence commemorative, XF
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Description
This is probably a late 19th century item, probably part of the campaign for independence from Sweden.
May 17 was the day that Norway declared its independence from Denmark. The idea was that it would prevent its acquisition by Sweden. That didn’t work out. Sweden took Norway and kept it until 1905.
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.
