Ura87

10 hours ago, graham said:

Sorry, I do not believe it is an unofficial medal.

Thanks for your opinion.

I saw this one at the Romanian auction. Is this unofficial type or just souvenir.

On 14/09/2020 at 13:46, sumserbrown said:

Taisho would make sense as this is how the Japanese traditionally number their years, based on the year of the reign of the current emperor. Taisho 3 is 1914, Taisho 8 is 1919. The Taisho period continued until 1926 when the Showa period started under Emperor Hirohito.

I just checked my Japanese victory medal (with original ribbon) for a stamp hidden by the ribbon but I don't have one. So the question is how often do you see such a medal with a stamp and why would some ribbons have them and others not. The other possibility that occurs is that the size and shape of this stamp looks like a Hanko, the individual and unique stamps that all Japanese people use to identify themselves on official documents (instead of the Western signature). Could it be that someone has personalised their medal?

This is my medal - not the prettiest ribbon, but I did buy it at a flea market in Tokyo so it feels authentic ?

 

It really can be Hanko. I completely forgot about it.

16 hours ago, graham said:

Ura87,

Nice medal. Have you been able to translate what the stamp says on the ribbon?

Unfortunately I don't know, but the first character is 大 "Tai" may next 正 "shō"...

With stamp on the ribbon.

How it possible two Victory Medals  in one group. I heard about one and thought it was an exceptional case, but recently I see another case.

On 18/07/2018 at 22:25, lambert said:

This medal is considered "a fantasy" , there is no evidence that it really was an official commemorative medal of the First World War. unfortunately.

 

Lambert 

I understand that, I want to understand why this fake is for Poland, and not Serbia, for example.

Hi to all. I became interested in the cause of the Polish Victory Medal and found information that American Poles who fought in the Blue Army did not recognize veterans in either America or Poland, so they established their own commemorative medal. Maybe that was the Polish Victory Medal?

 

The clasp on the Victory Medal is an unofficial clasp that has been added to the ribbon - there were no clasps issued for that medal.

Thanks for the answer.

Hi to all. What is this clasp? Why it was worn, it should not be? It was a fashion?

Thank you.

Cool collection . Can you show Philippines medals in detail?

Some may say something about this medal? This type I have met only once.

I think this medal is not considered. "Medalla de los Voluntarios Catalanes 1914-1918" https://historiayculturamilitar.wordpress.com/tag/unio-catalanista/

4 hours ago, lambert said:

Argentina remained Neutral during the First World War, I have no information about Argentine volunteers, except the volunteers of European decendence (Germans, French, English, etc.) who received the call of the mother country.

I researched a little more, The medal has no connection with the of World War I.

http://www.bibliomedicinadigital.fmed.uba.ar/medicina/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=medallas&d=Medalla_0734

here

582155_JOMSA_Vol57_1_25.pdf

 

Lambert

Thank you very much.

On 23.01.2017 at 15:41, lambert said:

Hello welcome !

I do not know much, but it is a medal on the small participation of Argentina in World War I, probably help with the Argentine Red Cross.

 

lambert

Thank you. I thought that this medal a veteran union Argentine volunteers who fought in Europe.

Hi all, anyone knows the history of the medal?