$85.00 CAD
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Beautiful gold-filled medal with image of water sports: canoeing and swimming, Small piece of colored enameled stars and stripes
Made by the well known Dieges & Clust company. Stamped as ‘G. F. (Gold Filled) on back.
Comes with original box with outer label and inside company name and logo, along with orange and blue ribbon.
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Medal: 1 ½” x 1 ¼”
Box: 3 ½” x 2 ¼”
Dieges & Clust were jewellers established in New York in 1898 by Col. Charles J. Dieges (b. Oct. 26, 1865-d. Sept. 14, 1953) and Prosper Clust.
They produced many medals, including the Spanish–American War Medal, the 1904 Olympic Medal, the Eagle Scout medal (from 1916–1920), the Medal of Honour, and the Titanic-Carpathia Medals (at the request of "The Unsinkable" Mrs. Molly Brown). They made baseball's first Most Valuable Player Awards and many Baseball Press Pins as well as Lou Gehrig's farewell plaque. They also cast the Heisman Trophy (in New York and later Providence, Rhode Island) from its inception in 1935 through late 1979 when the company was sold to Herff Jones (a division of Carnation) on January 1, 1980.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieges_%26_Clust
