christerd Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Hi, I´m thinking about buying these medals in boxes , but I don´t know anything about them except that they are from Anhalt and Sachsen AltenburgHave anyone any info about them , are they buyable Best regards Christer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beau Newman Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 They are the merit medals of the Anhalt Order of Albert the Bear and The Saxe-Ernestine Order for Altenburg (Type of 1871-1891). Nice to find them in the cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christerd Posted April 29, 2015 Author Share Posted April 29, 2015 Go them , but they didn´t come cheap ....71 Euro for the Anhalt Merit Medal and 120 fot the Sachsen one .Hopefully its still a good buy? More pics when they arrive Christer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRBeery Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 I'd be happy to add those to my collection at those prices. Good show! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christerd Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 (edited) Thanks ,The funny thing is that I didn´t really know anything about them and thought maybe I was bidding to much German Imperial medals and stuff is not very popular in Sweden, I´m one of the few that collect 1872-1918 , the later period in contrast 1933-1945 has stupid prices and collectors buy all kind of fakes and worthless crap .....Know I have to learn more about the Sachsen Altenburg/Meinigen/Coburg Merit medals .....I found ou that there is quite a lot online http://www.archive-in-thueringen.de/finding_aids/index.php?path=0;27866;41329So I can at least get approx numbers awarded.Anhalt is more of a mystery , don´t think there is anything online from that state is there? All the best from Sweden , celebrating Labour Day today Christer Edited May 1, 2015 by christerd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dedehansen Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Hello Christer, a bargain.They are listed on a german catalogue from 2010 with: Anhalt silberne Verdienstmedaille OEK number 23 140 €Altenburg silberne Verdienstmedaille OEK number 2508 220 € only the medals RegardsAndreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christerd Posted May 8, 2015 Author Share Posted May 8, 2015 (edited) Today they arrived and I was very impressed by the condition of the boxes first !They look almost perfect First the Anhalt box then the Sachsen Altenburg with its makers label But the BIG suprise was when I cleaned them..... The Anhalt is the Goldene Verdienstmedallie ! ( Bronze vergoldet) and the Sachsen is also the Goldene Verdienstmedallie (Silver vergoldet)Wow , it really made my weekend , here are tthey together with a Swedish Silver medal I also got today ... Christer Edited May 8, 2015 by christerd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claudius Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 Today they arrived and I was very impressed by the condition of the boxes first !They look almost perfect First the Anhalt box then the Sachsen Altenburg with its makers label But the BIG suprise was when I cleaned them..... The Anhalt is the Goldene Verdienstmedallie ! ( Bronze vergoldet) and the Sachsen is also the Goldene Verdienstmedallie (Silver vergoldet)Wow , it really made my weekend , here are tthey together with a Swedish Silver medal I also got today ... Christer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christerd Posted May 10, 2015 Author Share Posted May 10, 2015 (edited) After a little bit of research online I counted the following numbers for Sachsen Altenburg Goldene Verdenstmedaliie 1871-1891 351 awarded with dates and another 58 that could have been awarded during this period. So a total of max about 400 awarded.1871-16 1875 - 16 1879 - 8 1883 - 7 1887 - 261872 - 18 1876 - 17 1880 - 15 1884 - 22 1888 - 1 1873- 17 1877 - 19 1881 - 19 1885 - 27 1889 - 31874 - 12 1878 - 42 1882 - 20 1886 - 32 1890 - 2 1891 - 3 seems that about 20 yearly was quite normal and going down the last years before the new version come in 1892.Som new info !!I found out that the medals was awarded to someone from Sweden and has been here since then.....There was only 3 ! People from Sweden that got the Sachsen Altenburg Verdienstmedallie and all three had a close connection to both Sweden and Sachsen Altthrough this woman She is Prinzess Therese von Sachsen Altenburg , frau Herzogin von Dalkarlien (after her husband died in 1873)She was married in 1864 to Prince August of Sweden and lived in Stockholm for many years to her death in 1914.November 29th 1886 three Swedish got the Goldene Verdienstmedallie Hoflakei I Johnsson , Stallmeister L Johansson and Zweiter Kammardiener F Th Bjorklund I´m quuite sure my medals had belong to one of those three. The problem is that these names are really common in Sweden , but I will se if I can get some more info since they worked at the Royal Court.Christer Edited May 10, 2015 by christerd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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