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Identify Old Medal

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  • #2
    franklyon
    Registered Users Posts: 614 ✭✭✭franklyon


    Link doesn't work


  • #3
    Boxcar_Willie
    Registered Users Posts: 425 ✭✭Boxcar_Willie


    Links are not working


  • #4
    The Mulk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭The Mulk


    I'll have to fix them later.

    Check now


  • #5
    coylemj
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    It looks like an Irish sterling silver hallmark from 1950. The motiff shows oak leaves and acorns, the surrounding cogwheel teeth suggests some link to engineering or manufacturing?


  • #6
    The Mulk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭The Mulk


    coylemj wrote: »
    It looks like an Irish sterling silver hallmark from 1950. The motiff shows oak leaves and acorns, the surrounding cogwheel teeth suggests some link to engineering or manufacturing?

    Thank you, I think it might be a guild or tradesman award for carpentry.
    I was thinking of ANCO(FAS predecessor) award, but it might be earlier than that.
    I can't get any similar images on-line.


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  • #7
    coylemj
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    Update: research on the makers mark to the left of the hallmark indicates that it was produced by the Kilkenny Design Workshop which operated from 1965 to 88.

    https://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Makers/Dublin-JL.html#K

    And I misread the table of Dublin date letters, there was no bold border between columns so I picked the year from the wrong side of the column, that letter represents 1976.

    https://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Dates/Dublin.html


  • #8
    The Mulk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭The Mulk


    coylemj wrote: »
    Update: research on the makers mark to the left of the hallmark indicates that it was produced by the Kilkenny Design Workshop which operated from 1965 to 88.

    https://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Makers/Dublin-JL.html#K

    But the date letter on the hallmark indicates Dublin 1950 :confused:

    Would it not be 1976, from the date table in the link
    Woman-harp-1(one)
    That would put it around the time of ANCO.
    I've just never heard of an award from them.


  • #9
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,319 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    The Mulk wrote: »
    Would it not be 1976, from the date table in the link
    Woman-harp-1(one)
    That would put it around the time of ANCO.
    I've just never heard of an award from them.

    Yes, I misread the table, see the correction I made to my earlier post, it is 1976.


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