Award - XIV Olympiad Third prize; bronze
Features
| Location |
United Kingdom
 |
|---|---|
| Issuing entity | John Pinches |
| King |
George VI (1936-1952)
|
| Type | Award medals › Sport awards |
| Year | 1948 |
| Composition | Tombac |
| Weight | 67 g |
| Diameter | 50 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Number | N# 550289 |
| References | BHM# 4421 Laurence Brown. British Historical Medals. B.A. Seaby, London, United Kingdom (3 volumes). Christopher Eimer. British Commemorative Medals and their Values. London, United Kingdom (2 volumes). Victor Gadoury, Romolo Vescovi; 1996. Médailles et monnaies olympiques: 510 av. J.-C. – 1994 = Olympic Medals and Coins. Éditions Victor Gadoury, Monaco, Monaco. John Harvey Pinches; 1987. Medals by John Pinches: A catalogue of works struck by the company from 1840 to 1969. Heraldry Today, London, United Kingdom. |
Commemorative issue
London Olympics
Obverse
Winning athlete facing left, with raised right arm, holding palm leaf in left hand, carried by jubilant athletes facing left.
Script: Latin
Lettering: GC
Engraver: Giuseppe Cassioli
Reverse
Victory wearing toga, seated, facing right, holding laurel wreath in raised right hand and palm leaf in left hand. Amphora to the left. Amphitheatre below.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
XIVTH
OLYMPIAD
LONDON
1948
Engraver: Giuseppe Cassioli
Mint
John Pinches Medallist Ltd, London, United Kingdom (1840-1980)Comments
Brown: This is a prize medal of the Olympic Games: AE gilt for first, silver for second and bronze for third. The design had been used since 1928, being amended on the obverse to suit the appropriate host country.
Pinches assert that the first prize medal was silver gilt.
Pinches: The dies, used at the previous Games, were lost in Berlin in the 1939-45 war. Lord Burghley lent his own medal, which was enlarged in wax using the reducing machine in reverse, and then restored very exactly from enlarged photographs and reduced again, but to 2" instead of 2 ¼". With the reverse legend amended for venue, dies were supplied for Helsinki 1952 and Melbourne 1956.
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