Antique Medal
A Brief History Of Olympic MedalsAs most of you are aware, both men’s jewelry and women’s jewelry are normally deeply personal and cherished pieces of one’s overall ensemble. Many pieces of a person’s jewelry collection has deeply personal meaning as they are accumulated by way of special purchases or from a significant other or through family hand-me-downs that passes oldfashioned jewelry by way of generations. For athletes, though, there is no better piece of jewelry that you may have in your possession than an Olympic medal. As the Olympics are in full swing, a whole new set of athletes are securing these sets of medals. Like jewelry, Olympic medals have become more stylish all around the years. In the basi Olympics games of the innovative era in 1896, silver medals were given out to the winners. It wasn’t until later Olympics that the gold for primary place, silver for second and bronze for third system was adapted. Up until the 1990’s Olympic medals were normally rather benign. They were ordinarily one color and printed with a symbol and the name of the Olympic city. It wasn’t until the 1992 Winter Olympics that this changed. The Albertville, France hosted games were known for quirky designs, and their glass infused medals were no different. In fact, the medals were more glass then precious medal. Athletes didn’t seem to mind as they were beautifully crafted and, hey, an Olympic medal is an Olympic medal. The 1994 and 1998 Winter Olympic medals continued this quirkiness, and it wasn’t until 2008 until the ordinarily more established Summer Olympics employed alien materials in the medals. The highly praised 2008 Beijing Olympic Medals used jade, which gave them both a innovative and classical look. Since China expended billions of dollars attempting to prefect everything in regards to the games (at least on the surface), it’s no surprise that they provided galore of the most gorgeous medals in Olympic history. My guess would be that London, the host of the 2012 Olympics, presents medals that are more in line with the classical medals rather of using alien material as the Chinese did. More Olympic medal trivia to impress your friends: the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was the initial to feature Olympic medals with holes in the center of them (they were circles and rather fetching). The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic medals are the introductory to be “wavy”. They feature engraved emblems of the sports for which the winners participated in and are struck nine times to get their wave feature. Trust me, they look better then you might think. For magnificent selections in men's jewelry, visit titanium-jewelry.com
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Antique M. Hohner Harmonica? I have an Old Standby harmonica that seems to be very old. It has the 6 pointed star, 3d image, latest date on medal is 1881. I was marveling if any individual knew a way of figuring the age of this instrument. Thank you. Go to Hohner's internetsite and send them a pic. They will gladyl tell you. I figure an 1881 is probably worth a lot of $$$. |
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