any idea what this is? it is double sided

[tinley]

[Sarge]

It would make it a whole lot easier to look at IF you would post your photos right side up!!!
Sarge

[douglas2496]

Pictures should of course be the right way up and in high resolution, otherwise it makes things very difficult. I have rotated them and saved them as bigger files so they can at least be enlarged.

It appears to be a watch fob for an Industrial Guild or society. From the style I would guess it was late 19th or early 20th century.

[Watchdog]

Pictures should of course be the right way up and in high resolution, otherwise it makes things very difficult. I have rotated them and saved them as bigger files so they can at least be enlarged.

It appears to be a watch fob for an Industrial Guild or society.

Yep, I agree. Most of us here actually take pleasure in helpfully sharing knowledge of any item put up for identification but pictures that by their very appearance make this difficult are not a good idea. Proper presentation of the images makes getting the answer you want far more likely.

That said, as stated above this is a "medallion" rather than a medal and is certainly not military.
BTW in case you didn't know, the language is german but of course that would include; Austria, Switzerland, areas of some other european countries and the odd one or two German colonies.

I hope this helps.

Mark

Edit, If memory serves me (Despite what some of my colleagues think, I did actually listen at school!!) the inscription is from a very long and I have to say somewhat heavy poem by Friedrich Schiller and I think it translates as " If the work (as in a piece of work) shall praise the master,
the blessing comes from on high." but there would be a line before that which the reader would need to know to really put it in context I just don't remember it. The gerneral concept seem fairly obvious though.

[Watchdog]

Whilst browsing the form posts I just noticed that this exact question and pics were posted in another thread;

https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/order...w-what-619140/

Now I feel I wasted my time replying.

At least it seems I was correct about Friedrich Schiller!

Is it me or would it be a good idea for a member posting two separate copies of the same question in different sub-fora to say that he was doing this?

Regards

Mark

[tinley]

Thanks everyone, sorry about having this post in another section, I was worried that I had placed it in the wrong spot. By no means should your time be considered wasted, any information is appreciated and I was not aware of protocol.