The medal collector: A guide to naval, military, airforce and civil medals and ribbons
- Author(s): Stanley Currie Johnson
- Category: Militaria & Weapons
- Publisher: London: H. Jenkins
- Publish year: 1921
- ISBN: 9678000004390
- Number of Pages: 382
It is true that medals or, more strictly speaking, medallions, were struck by the Greeks and Romans, but the fashioning of such pieces did not resolve itself into a distinct art until the Italians produced such masters of the craft as Antonio Pisano in the fifteenth century. Pisano may be spoken of as the father of medal-craft, as we know it to-day, and many delightful specimens of his work are preserved in the British Museum.
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PREFACE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I THE PIONEER MEDALS OF ENGLAND
CHAPTER II EARLY MEDALS OF THE HON. EAST INDIA CO.
CHAPTER III PENINSULAR AWARDS
CHAPTER IV WATERLOO AWARDS
CHAPTER V THE NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL
CHAPTER VI CAMPAIGN MEDALS I.-FROM GHUZNEE TO THE KAFFIR RISINGS OF 185o-3
CHAPTER VII CAMPAIGN MEDALS II.-FROM THE CRIMEA TO CENTRAL AFRICA, 1894-8
CHAPTER VIII CAMPAIGN MEDALS III.-FROM MATABELELAND TO THE GREAT WAR
CHAPTER IX BRITISH ORDERS AND THEIR INSIGNIA
CHAPTER X THE VICTORIA CROSS
CHAPTER XI SERVICE MEDALS FOR BRAVERY, ETC
CHAPTER XII COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS
CHAPTER XIII MEDALS FOR LONG SERVICE, GOOD CONDUCT, ETC
CHAPTER XIV REGIMENTAL MEDALS
CHAPTER XV CIVIL MEDALS
CHAPTER XVI MEDALS OF THE UNITED STATES
CHAPTER XVII FOREIGN AWARDS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX I ORDER IN WHICH DECORATIONS ARE WORN
APPENDIX II OFFICIAL ANALYSIS OF AWARDS BETWEEN 19144 AND 1920
INDEX TO MEDALS
INDEX TO BARS
INDEX TO ORDERS OF CHIVALRY
MISCELLANEOUS INDEX