USA Harvard society silver medal no date (probably 1907-09)
$125.00
USA, MASSACHUSETTS, medal, no date (probably 1907-09), Obverse: Harvard University arms between columns, above, a ribbon on which is engraved H. N. ARROWSMITH, below is a panel on which is engraved ’09, Reverse: a book, a scroll, a lamp, a caduceus, HAEC STUDIA ADOLSECENTIAM ALUNT INSTITUTE OF 1770, Edge: plain, a loop is at the top, silver, 40mm, 39.98g, edge bump, cleaned XF
1 in stock
Description
The Institute of 1770 was a public speaking club that merged with the Hasty Pudding club in 1924. H. N. Arrowsmith, class of 1909, was later appointed second assistant of the University baseball team. Further information on the guy seems to not be generally available on the web.
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.
