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06-06-2012 02:19 PM
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Re: Singer's association medal
I can honestly say I've never seen anything like it before but I am interested to learn more about it. It is entirely possible that it may be a locally awarded medal for a singing competition and therefore not many will have been made and only awarded to a very few people who competed.
Andreas maybe able to offer more information is he sees this thread...........
Looking for LDO marked EK2s and items relating to U-406.....
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Re: Singer's association medal
the ribbon does contain a synthetic material such as nylon. this can be seen just by looking at the frayed ends in the photo.
nylon was in existence the year before the date engraved on the medal. i do not know how widespread it's use was, if at all. i know it was first used commercially in stockings in 1940 and in toothbrushes in 1938. but i could be wrong about these exact years. however, i could surmise it was not used in ribbon until sometime after the engraved date on the medal.
perhaps the ribbon was added as a replacement to an original medal later?
a real interesting medal however.
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Re: Singer's association medal
I think its for a member of the choir association reaching a particular grade of singing
Nick
"In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen men fight so hard." - SS Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm Bittrich - Arnhem
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Re: Singer's association medal
The text on the medal roughly translates as:
"Singers' Circle
Meschede
Prize Singing
Dorlar
17 May 36"
("Prize Singing" was the best I could come up with. "Wertung" literally means "judging", "assessment" etc.)
Meschede is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia. Dorlar (now incorporated into the municipality of Lahnau) is a community in Hesse. Don't let the different states fool you: The two places are only some 20 kilometers away from one another.
I don't know anything else about the item and cannot make a really qualified comment on authenticity.
Personally, though, I don't believe that a faker would copy or make up an obscure prize medal for a small-town singing contest.
(However, as has been said above, it could be that the ribbon is not original to the medal.)
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Re: Singer's association medal
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HPL2008
The text on the medal roughly translates as:
"Singers' Circle
Meschede
Prize Singing
Dorlar
17 May 36"
("Prize Singing" was the best I could come up with. "Wertung" literally means "judging", "assessment" etc.)
Meschede is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia. Dorlar (now incorporated into the municipality of Lahnau) is a community in Hesse. Don't let the different states fool you: The two places are only some 20 kilometers away from one another.
I don't know anything else about the item and cannot make a really qualified comment on authenticity.
Personally, though, I don't believe that a faker would copy or make up an obscure prize medal for a small-town singing contest.
(However, as has been said above, it could be that the ribbon is not original to the medal.)
Hi HPL,
It's the answer for one of my doubts, Dorlar is a place, not a person. It's not a nominal engraved medal, but a medal engraved for a singing contest at Dorlar. I agree, is very strange to me too if someone had faked a obscure medal like this one.
Regards,
Ricardo
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Re: Singer's association medal
Probably uinique engraving....but collectable?
Pete
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