TM Coin Club Thread
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TM Coin Club Thread
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05-01-2024, 05:35 PM
(04-01-2024, 10:55 AM)Dean Wrote: what happened to this? Good question - this issue was pretty crudely done anyway (cast?). If they were made by casting, perhaps this one was popped from the mould before it had cooled properlly. It's what it reminds me of, anyway, having tried as a kid to make my own "coins" from molten lead and other soft metals.
02-02-2024, 12:20 PM
I see noble have an eSale of the stuff that didn't sell first time around in their NZ medals sale. Luckily I often check the noble website otherwise I'd have not known it was happening. Noble could make a better effort to inform their customers of when they are having a sale?
30-03-2024, 11:23 AM
[quote pid="52897" dateline="1706833242"]
Another instalment of the Morel commemorative medal catalogue update is now available for free downloading. The 1890s chapter (100 pages, publication date April 2024) is on the RNSNZ website and my Archive.org page a few days ahead of schedule: https://www.rnsnz.org.nz/collector-info/catalogues or https://archive.org/details/@james_tigernuts If anyone has photos of any of the items the authors were unable to illustrate, please let me know. [/quote]
11-04-2024, 12:23 PM
(30-03-2024, 11:23 AM)translateltd Wrote: [quote pid="52897" dateline="1706833242"] [/quote] You're doing good work there Martin, congratulations! Can't help with photos other than what was in the Jim Noble collection. It's a pity so many have holes in them but I guess that was a common thing to do back then. Does anyone know whether this very nice agricultural medal made its way back to NZ and if so who is the buyer so I can make an offer? https://www.noble.com.au/auctions/lot?id=470368
13-04-2024, 10:01 AM
(11-04-2024, 12:23 PM)Dean Wrote: You're doing good work there Martin, congratulations! Can't help with photos other than what was in the Jim Noble collection. It's a pity so many have holes in them but I guess that was a common thing to do back then. Thanks, Dean - we've got access to the Noble collection images, which is great. It was Jim's claim that the contents of the collection would require the existing catalogues to be rewritten that encouraged us to move on the Morel updates in particular, as the project had been started some years before but was languishing up to that point. Not long to go now - working on the 1860s-80s at the mo, and the 1910s are ticking along in the background. Then it will be time to tackle MacMaster again since it's ten years since the last printed edition and we've got a massive database of updates waiting.
13-04-2024, 01:18 PM
Yes you'll need to update the 1865 Exhibition Medal entry to include the bright bronze variety! I think there was a Waitangi-Bledisloe 1935 medal also in bright bronze. I'd be quite interested to know more about them, and get some better photos. The Morel photos weren't up to much, it has to be said. I wonder what a 1865 bright bronze would look like in hand? I also wonder what other goodies Jim has in his collection. There has been a sparsity of decent NZ stuff in the Noble auctions, so maybe Jim has been nabbing most of the good stuff?!
14-04-2024, 08:36 PM
I suppose it does look quite nice and spotless in the photo ...
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/...f=GFDW5PUt
15-04-2024, 09:22 AM
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(14-04-2024, 08:36 PM)Dean Wrote: I suppose it does look quite nice and spotless in the photo ... Not sure it's that many dollars worth of spotless, though - some "spirited bidding" there! (13-04-2024, 01:18 PM)Dean Wrote: Yes you'll need to update the 1865 Exhibition Medal entry to include the bright bronze variety! I think there was a Waitangi-Bledisloe 1935 medal also in bright bronze. I'd be quite interested to know more about them, and get some better photos. The Morel photos weren't up to much, it has to be said. I wonder what a 1865 bright bronze would look like in hand? I also wonder what other goodies Jim has in his collection. There has been a sparsity of decent NZ stuff in the Noble auctions, so maybe Jim has been nabbing most of the good stuff?! We're trying to redo all the photos as much as possible - I have some of Leon's negatives but even they're not the best, hence the reliance on the Noble sale and the kindness of local dealers and collectors to supply images. I also need to contact the Dunedin museum (which one??) to get images of the only gold version of 1865/1 - that's still on the To Do list.
I'd have thought it would be this one
https://otagomuseum.nz/ but I can't seem to be able to find any search results from their collection. Do we know of anyone who has actually sighted it and can confirm its whereabouts? interesting write up here of how if found its way to the museum. https://www.rnsnz.org.nz/media/1395/nznj...l_14_3.pdf
15-04-2024, 12:00 PM
(15-04-2024, 11:32 AM)Dean Wrote: I'd have thought it would be this one The museums seem to have changed their names recently - I've tried one of them this morning and will cast the net wider if my first choice can't help. I've got an original newspaper clipping from 1975 showing Dr Stuart Park holding the gold medal shortly after the museum secured it at auction. Apparently it was passed in at $1100 and the museum secured it subsequently for $1500.
15-04-2024, 03:57 PM
Otago Museum have got back to me and will arrange pics - so that's another step forward!
That is excellent news I was worried it might have disappeared!
Do they have it on display, or is it kept hidden away in the basement and only brought out on request?
Yesterday, 12:12 AM
Interesting, one of these (also unholed) was in the Jim Noble collection. Seems to be prone to colourful toning.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/176198355218?it...R6Lep-zcYw
Yesterday, 05:46 PM
(16-04-2024, 02:52 PM)Dean Wrote: That is excellent news I was worried it might have disappeared! Not sure, though they said they don't have photos to hand so they'll need to take some specially for the purpose. |
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