France Verdun Medal...

[sumserbrown]

On 22/08/2016 at 16:42, lambert said:

I don't know if this is known.

Souvenir  - 25mm in Silver, Lima - Peru (1917?)

 

Lambert

 

 

Hi Lambert,

It is mentioned in the (excellent) book on Verdun Medals by Thierry Silvert (2006) on p19. I have scanned in that page as well as the front cover of the book. It doesn't say anything about the rarity of this medal although I suspect it must be quite uncommon to find one.

best wishes

Rob

Scan2023-01-09_182155.pdf Scan2023-01-09_182314.pdf

[sumserbrown]

Finally after many years of searching I managed to track down and buy a Steiner version of the medal 😏

If any of you can get to the World Militaria Forum I put a thread on there with all the Verdun variants I have. If anyone is interested I will post some on GMIC too.

Rob

 

 

 

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There are a surprising number of different bars on the Verdun medals. In his book 'La Medaille de Verdun', 2006, Thierry Silvert lists 8 bars, which I have put in his order in the image below. I have also added two more modern (but different) bars, all from my collection. I can't speak for the rarity of each type here but type 3 was the one that took me longest to find. Please let me know if you have any other bars not listed here.