War Medals and Their History

by William Augustus Steward

King Edward's medal for Ashanti, 1900, is generally impressed in rather small skeleton block lettering.

The China medal, 1900, is named—for the navy—with a bold but light kind of Roman capital, similar to that described on page [354] as used on the Suakin, 1885, medals.

The Tibet medal is generally named in a combination of large and small Roman and script, as

G.Hand, 1^st.13B^n.r.

The Indian medal for 1908 is engraved in script, but so badly that one could not conceive an engraver's apprentice of one year's standing doing so badly.

King George's medal for Abor, 1911-12, is engraved in a rather crude script.

The illustrations of the namings are mostly considerably enlarged to render comparison easier.

GERMAN MEDAL FOR FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR, 1870-1.