Medals & Medallic Art & Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This medal is a 1914 German Sanitatshunde Table Medal. The word, Sanitatshunde, translates literally to "Sanitary Dog", but can also mean "Medic Dog." The British refer to them as "Mercy Dogs." The large-scale use of dogs in war times was...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1892 pair of cased silver life saving medals from Newburyport, MA. These were awarded to Theodore Nutting for saving four men on a capsized boat at Newburyport Bar (Plum Island) on either June 26th or 28th, 1892. VINTAGE: Circa 1892...

ARTIFACT: Lovely, pre-entry WWI French Table Medal showing a nude woman piloting a Bleriot monoplane over the clouds and reads: "SIC ITUR AD ASTRA". Artist signed in silver-plated bronze. Reverse panel for presentation, not engraved...

ARTIFACT: This is a large eighteenth century medallion made of bronze, and may possibly have either religious or patriotic meaning. The medallion shows a scene in relief of a robed man seated upon a rock holding a staff and a tablet. At first glance the...