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to see about 70 interested viewers° On Th~so
day morning the papers carried a pictlzoe of our
member Mr° David Fo Spink, of London, having a medal pinned on him by Hans Sehnlman~s
beautiful wife°
HOWARD STUDIOS
MRS. HANS M. F. SCHULMAN PINS THE
CONVENTION BADGE ON MR. DAVID SPINK.
Practically every OMSA member was on the still hunt in the Bourse. I saw Mrs. Panosh and Mrs. De Nise pick up some nice new pieces
which I am sure they will have in their exhibits
on the West Coast before too long. Mr. Fergu-
son secured some beautiful peace medals from
Mr. David Spink, to add to his already outstand-
ing collection of Indian peace medals. I would
say that today he has the finest collection of
peace medals in existence. Another one of
members seems to have caught up with the two
Blucher Stars that are now in America. I expect that by this time they have been added to his
specialized collection of Iron Crosses. This
wi!l certainly put him far in front in his par-
ticular field.
Friday morning, August 20th, at the se- cond business session the awards of the exhi-
bits at the Convention were made. Much to the
pleasure of every OMSA member present, Mr.
J. D. Ferguson of Rock Island, Quebec,Canada,
one of our staunch members, received the first
award for Orders and Medals. His truly out-
standing exhibit of Indian peace medals well deserves the honor conferred on it. Our con-
gratulations to our membm Mr. Ferguson on his
fine First-Place win!
Sa~Jr~tay brought on that sad time when
e~eryone steaoted to pack up his exhibits for
the trip back home° Great were ore" regrets to
leave old acquaintances that we had again en-
cmmtered and ~;o bid good-bye to new acqnaino
tanees that we had made. Everyone expressed
his appreciation for the wonderful work done by
the chairman and the members of the Cleveland
Convention Committee. Also, the officers of American Numismatic Association were greatly
praised for the wonderful convention and for
That evening was "the Banquet nigilt.
OMSA had a table of 10 members. We were
given the great honor of being placed in the
center of the hall, immediately in front of the speaker’s rostrum. At the table were Mr. and
Mrs. Leonel C. Panosh, Mr. David F. Spink,
Mrs. Gene DeNise, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Roy,
Mrs. B. S. Berry, Mr. W. E. Krause, Mr. M.
Powills and Mr. F. W. MacKay. Over 240 mem-
bers were seated at the Banquet. Some of the
finest entertainment that it has ever been our pleasure to see was presented by the Cleveland
Convention Committee. One of the best meals in the history of ANA conventions was served
to the guests. Finally came the h6ur that most of us had been waiting for when Doctor J. Hew-
itt Judd, President of the American Numismatic Association, arose to present the Grand Award
for the outstanding numismatic exhibit at the
Convention. The Chairman of the New York Orders and Decorations Society’s Exhibition Committee was requested to come to the plat-
HOWARD STUDIOS
~SS MARSHA STACK AND NRS. BERRY ADMIRING THE ORDER OF THE UNITED GLORY OF CHINA
4 THE MEDAL COLLECTOR BULLETIN
THE OMSA TABLE (M. BURGETT, MRS. B. S. BERRY, F. W. MacKAY)
form and to receive, on behalf of NYODS, tile Howland Wood Memorial Grand Award. Thus the
collecting of orders, medals, and decorations
truly came of age. For the first time in the 63 years of ANA conventions another branch of
numismatics than coins or bills received the
Grand Award. As the chairman said in his speech of acceptance, "I do not accept this
award on behalf of myself or the New York
Orders and Decorations Society, nor on behalf of the national organization, the Orders and
Medals Society of America, but on behalf of all
collectors of orders, decorations, and medals,
and see in it a symbol of approval of our efforts
from the great American Numismatic Associa-
tion". And so, our branch of collecting now
takes its proper place among the other divi-
sions of the numismatic field.
On talking to members of NYODS, I was
told that the outstanding display of orders by that society was taken from the collections of
Mr. Thomas Capstick, Doctor A. Iv. Goodwin,
Mr. F. W. MacKay, Mr. Charles Fo O’Ma!ley,
Mr. James Risk, Major H. Beresferd Smith, and
Mro Joseph Wagner. These gentlemen are to be
congratulated on the wonderful display that
they sent to Cleveland.
The 63rd ANA Convention is now but a
memory for those who attended; however, it
will always be a mast pleasant memory for all
collectors of orders, decorations and medals.
Knickerbocker
NOTES ABOUT SOME ANCIENT ORDERS
800 years ago o o o
tn order to defend Poland against the Prus-
sians, in 1153 Polish Duke Conrad organized a
militia whose members were called"the Knights
of Jesus Christ" and later oi! "the Knights of
Dobrin’~ - the name of a castle given by the Duke to these knights.
As this order did not give Conrad the assis-
tance he expected, he asked the Teutonic Order for help. The Dobrin Order was then incorporat-
ed into the Teutonic Order.
Insignia: a red sword pointed upward with
an upside-down five-pointed red star.
600 years ago . . .
Order of the Star, or the Order of Our Lady
of the Noble House, was created by John II of
the Valois, King of France, in 1351, in honor
of the star that guided the three Kings of Beth-
lehem to adore the Savior. The order was also
called Our Lady of St. Ouen (pres de Paris).
John II admitted only the representatives of the
highest nobility to this order, but shortly after-
wards all kinds of people were admitted, having
presented false credentials, and the order lost
its lustre. Charles VIII, son of John, abolished the order and gave its insignia to his Guards.
Later, the Archers of Paris wore the emblem of
this order.
The insignia consisted of a star hanging
from a golden collar. Motto: Monstrant Regibus
Astra Viam (The Stars Show the Way to the
Kings).
Order of the Lake, or tl:e Order of the Enterprize, is a little-known medieval order.
All that is known is that it was instituted by
Lewis, King of Hungary, in !351~ The order disappeared shortly after.
Order of the Star was instituted in Sicily
in about 135! in substitution for the Order of
the Half Moon. The Order of the Star had only
60 members who were noblemen of Messina.
The motto was the same as that of the Order of
of the Star, or of Our Lady of the Noble ttouse.
Insignia: an eight-pointed golden cross
charged with an eight-pointed silver star°
300 years ago , . .
Order of the Death’s Head was i~4::t~ ed
by Duke Silvius Nemrod (or Nimrod) of :~:rtem-
berg in 1652, and his mother was made the ::Z-~md prioress. At the beginning of the 18: cenv~:ry
NOVEMBER, 1954 5
[e
~sappeare~
of Honor and the British Victoria Allen is a member of the Board of
The Order of the Bee was created by he has been a collector
Louise-Benedictine of Bourbon, Duchess of and he has five
Maine, in 1703. It was given to men and women ~v in World War II
of the dukaI court at Sceaux. As the order was in the Marl
never recognized by the Pope, nor by the King
of France, it disappeared very soon afterward.
The insignia ;;nsisted of a golden medal showing a bee-hive and a flying bee. Motto: ORDERS ~[" ) MEDALS RECEIVE MORE Piccola si, ma fo pur gravi le ferite (I am small, RECOGNIT]q N
but can inflict heavy wounds). On talkix ~ tO the Chairman of the Exhibi-
Jean-Robert Schleich de Bosse tion Committc : of NYODS, I was informed that
our branch o: numismatics is to have another CORRECTION spot in the me21ight. Mr. F. C. Schneider,
Convention - which wil! be held at the Hotel In THE MEDAL COLLECTOR, June, Chalrman of ! e Mid-Atlantic States Numismatic
1954, page 3, we gave a short article by our Washington, ] .C°, October 22nd to the 24th -
Brussels member, Mr. H. Quinot, about the has invited tl , Chairman Of NYODS to bring an
latest decoration created in Belgium, the eight case e: aibit of orders to the Washington
D6coration Commemorative du Cinquanten. Convention. Also, he Was requested to bring
aire de la Donation Royale. Mr. Quinot the slide sho , of colored slides of orders, that
regrets to have given ~#r0aag information in was exhibite< at the ANA ConVention in Cleve-
the "Short note 0[ history" in this article, land, for a pecial Showing as a part of the
The Medal was not created to corn- Washington ( invention. It seems that for the
memorate the gift of CongO State to Belgium first time or ers have been recognized to the
(as it was stated in the June article), but extent that the New "fork Chairman is to be one
to commemorate another gift of King Leopold of the three speakers at the Washington Conven-
II 50 years ago. This gift Was that 0{ tion. We Certainly hope that all members of
castles and parks in Laeken (near Brussels), OMSA in the Wasl;ington area will try and at-
in Ostende and Tervueren (near Brussels), tend this convention.
in the Ardennes, and elsewhere in Belguim° Knickerbocker
THE MEDAL COLLECTOR BULLETIN 6