Médaille d'honneur du travail: variation types

[Veltro]

Dear all,

 

I have a question on a very common French medal, but I am a bit confused by the variety.

My questions is about the Médaille d'honneur du travail.

I know there are 4 grades (Argent, Vermeil, Or, Grand Or) and I know the medal has been updated per decree, so over time the medal has possible changed.

 

I have seen and own variations in text and images of this medal and I have also 2 boxes issued by different French ministries.

 

I have examples with the text:

“Honneur travail” with image of an Hamer (Industry?)

“Honneur travail” with image of an agricultural tools (Agriculture?)

“Ministère du Travail et de la Sécurité Sociale” (Social Work?)

“Ministère du Travail” (General?)

And boxes:

“Ministere du Travail et de la Prevoyance Sociale”

“Ministere du Commerce et de l’industrie”

 

So I have the feeling several ministries issued their own versions of the same medal.

Is there somewhere an overview on this medal which lists the variations and gives some context to them: Ministery = type of medal.

 

I know it is not a spectacular medal, but I like them, so I am interested to collect the variations.

 

Help is appreciated.

 

Greetings,

 

Christiaan

[Hendrik]

Hello Christiaan,

 

You may want to have a look among the "Médailles d'Honneur" (under "Décorations") on http://www.france-phaleristique.com/accueil.htm

All official medals are listed there, also medals with a different ribbon - see pictures below - (don't know if you're interested in those as well) and a fair number of non-work related medals as well. I think you may have some fun sifting through them all 🙂

 

Regards,

Hendrik

 

[Veltro]

Thank you very much for the link!

 

Greetings,

 

Christiaan