Stogieman Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Not my area, but rather scarce would be my (un)educated guess. Wu Pei Medal, cased Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stogieman Posted September 12, 2006 Author Share Posted September 12, 2006 Reverse: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Interesting. So little is known about these warlord period medals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulsterman Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 Be very, very careful with these-the back looks very much like a new fake"replacement" series of hungarian medals that are floating around this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stogieman Posted September 13, 2006 Author Share Posted September 13, 2006 Not my bag... has a case with Chinese iodiograms on the lid. medal appears to fit into the tray perfectly. The medal I don't know about but I can tell you the case looks quite legitimate to my eyes. Available at Time Traveler, under "This week's new buys" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinjin Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 Fake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JapanX Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 (edited) 100% original medal in original case. Made in silver. If I remember correctly obverse inscription reads "Awarded by General Wu Pei Fu, 3rd Division Commander, Chief Officer for Inspections and Patrols, Hunan and Hupeh Provinces" Reverse inscription reads "For unselfish Service" Edited January 6, 2014 by JapanX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drclaw Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Nick, these ones have always intrigued me, namely how they printed his face onto a medal in a way where it didn't rub off with normal usage. Most of the ones I've seen were uncased and with the image almost completely intact. Was a 'glaze' fired over the image to seal it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JapanX Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 My guess is that these melainotypes (more info about these can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintype ) were used to ruduce the costs of production. Another possible variant - these photos made awards more personalized. As we know "people's best friends and servants" always prefer to put their own images on anything that come to hand (especially their own awards ) And you are of course right about the case - these are very rare! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drclaw Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Fascinating stuff. It says they used potassium cyanide as a photographic fixer! Whatever you do, DON'T dab your finger on your tongue to clean a smudge on Wu's face ... Never thought our little armchair hobby could be so potentially fatal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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