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Gents, I’m proud to show you my latest acquisition: a cased Manchurian Enthronement Commemorative Medal. Hope you like it? BR, Chris

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Here is mine:

Nick, I have a very good idea, how to check authentizity of ribbons! Yours, "burning master" Chris PS: Honestly, we now that there are possiblities of using washing fluid, which influence structure, haptic etc. of ribbons. E.g. treat cuff titles, until they don't glow under UV-light...

Thanks, Nick! "special cleaning agent for bronze" - what sense...!

Nick, Looks like the material of medal in post 243/244 is different. It doesn't look like the "ordinary" bronze one. Or is it only bad view on picture? BR, Chris

@JapanX: Caught the “broad hint” :-) @M-G: Just in haste. After I turned the doc into the right way and played with the brightness, I could read some of the content. This document was issued in Showa 24 (1949), March 17th (column H) 1. Row: Numbers 2. Row: Dates (month & days) 3. Row: no idea! 4. Row: female names 5. Row: comments 6. Row: comments I’m not sure (sorry, but the quality is still poor), but it looked like an abstract from a book, given by the Japanese Army. It seems like it is a page of a book about Japanese female, which went out of Japan. E.g. Row 5, column B said: “because of marriage”. Hope that anybody else could clarify/add some info. BR, Chris Dok4.pdf

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Gents, Attached some photos of a nice medal, which is recently for sale. Sorry for the creepy photos, which are taken from the source. BR, Chris

You got me :

Sorry, misunderstood.

...who gave it to an auction house?

...any ideas, why/when there was any changes in the medal itself? E.g. fat vs. slim dove-version? BR, Chris

Oh no! Again, variation I need to look for... Thanks, Nick!

@Mickey A lovely group; with the indeed very low award number of 8141 a nice catch! @Nick Can you show a comparison between these two variations? BR, Chris

...another one for our gallery! BR, Chris

...another one for our gallery! BR, Chris

Do you mean the one from post no. 30 (this thread)? - I met the seller and know, that he sold this medal.

Well, we call it “free enterprise economy”: you never know who is looking where for what item…! BR, Chris @Nick: well, the items I’m looking for are not available this time…

Gents, Are there any list of results as download available? What happend to the unsold pieces? Will they be part of the following auction? BR, Chris

Always welcome!

I contacted the P&O heritage archive in London. Here is what they replied to me: “Dear Christian, Thank you for your enquiry to the P&O Heritage Collection. In answer to your query regarding William Davidson Mudie, I am afraid I can not find a photograph of him in our collection. However we do have an archive file related to the Thibet, which could possibly have information about the incident or possibly some kind of image or photograph. Unfortunately our archives are held the other side of London at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich and we do not visit there often. If you were in London you could maybe visit them yourself? You can order documents online at http://www.poheritage.com/our-archive/research-guides/passengers/po-archives-at-national-maritime-museum and you would need to look up the following record: P&O/65/344 Ships (Individual Vessels) - THIBET (1874) Miscellaneous Material I’m afraid is undated so there would be no guarantee that it would have the information you are looking for but it is the only document that we have relating to P&Os Thibet. […]” and further on: “[…] Further to my previous email, you could also try searching records at the National Archives online as they have records for Merchant seamen, including officers and masters and as he received a medal (although from the Japanese government) it may be recorded?: Records of the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen and successor 1845-1906 BT 122 Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers of Certificates of Competency, Masters and Mates, Foreign Trade http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/browse/C3160?v=r” Although I wish I could do so, I’m sorry to say that ’m not planning to go to London these days… But I’m very curious to see Cpt. Mudies face… Br, Chris

…at least, I can offer some information about the Thibet. Hopefully, I can add some pictures of the Thibet and maybe our captain Mudie: Type: Passenger liner P&O Group service: 1874-1895 P&O Group status: Owned by parent company Registered owners, managers + operators: The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Builders: Gourlay Brothers & Co Yard: Dundee/UK Yard number: 62 Registry: London, UK Official number: 70628 Signal letters: NLMT Gross tonnage: 2,593 grt Net tonnage: 1,671 nrt Deadweight: 2,211 tons Length: 109.69 m (360.0 ft) Breadth: 11.03 m (36.2 ft) Depth: 8.20 m (29.9 ft) Draught: 6.499 m (21 ft 4 in) Construction: Iron Engines: Compound inverted direct-acting steam engines Engine builders: Gourlay Brothers & Co Works: Dundee/UK Power: 2,016 ihp Propulsion: Single screw Speed: 11 knots Passenger capacity: 59 first class, 24 second class Cargo capacity: 3,062 cubic metres (108,150 cubic feet) Employment: Indian service Career: Purchased on the stocks. 29 Aug 1874 Launched 01 Oct 1874 Registered 03 Oct 1874 Ran trials and handed over as Thibet for The P & O Steam Navigation Company 12 Oct 1874 Maiden voyage London/Bombay 1875 Employed as a transport during the expedition to relieve the Soudanese garrisons, carrying 1,500 officers and men from Suez to Souakim 1876 Re-registered in Dundee/UK 28 Jan 1884 Called at Plymouth to repair steering gear 22 May 1884 Re-measured. Passenger capacity now 53 first class and 24 second class; Cargo capacity 3,143 cubic metres (111,012 cubic feet) 1885 Fitted with new boilers 22 Jun 1887 Hit a rock en route from Yokohama to Hong Kong; The pilot took a non-standard course but the Commander was reprimanded Feb 1890 Converted at Bombay to a cargo liner for the Japan service; Cargo capacity 4,327 cubic metres (152,837 cubic feet) Apr 1895 Sold for £8,500 to Hajee Cassum Joosub, Bombay Nov 1896 Renamed “Cashmere” Aug 1898 Sold to shipbreakers at Bombay Source: http://www.poheritage.com/Content/Mimsy/Media/factsheet/94712THIBET-1874pdf.pdf Taken on: 25 June 2013 BR, Chris

Phantastic item! Thanks for sharing! Are there any documents, pictures, etc.?