Are these rare?

[Wellbran]

Are these as rare as i think? I have not seen one anywhere else in my travels or online not heard of anyone talking about them either so??? If I say I think they are worth alot of money it may provoke a response...well I'm hoping!

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/4728/boxingmedal2.jpg

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/6949/boxingmedal1.jpg

[alanbenn]

Wellbran, I thought perhaps one of our medal enthusiasts may help you with this but nothing so far.

The medals are specific to a particular boxing tournament between ships and so in that respect are indeed rare. As for value....to you they are priceless...to a collector probably not worth a great deal, as they don't represent any campaign, not awarded for bravery as such, nor are they distinguished service medals.

Some campaign medals fetch a few pounds, bravery medals much more.

They don't look to be made of any precious metal, no detail on the crown and so it is difficult to say how much they may be worth, but I wouldn't have thought they were worth a great deal of money.

Hopefully someone may come along and tell me I'm totally wrong....here's wishing:)

Regards
Alan

[Wellbran]

Alan

Yes quite right it is priceless! Dad hated his war medals and kept them in a jamjar on the top shelf of the larder, he did not rate them BUT this medal he was very proud of....why? He said "I won it in my own right" also he used to tell the story about it, he told me he won it as the other guy kept hitting below the belt and he was disqualified! NOW do you believe that story? I am not so sure, even after all these years! that was Dad! All I know is Dads nose was pefect as the day he was born no breaks! so he must have been a bit useful !!

[alanbenn]

I can quite believe that story, in professional boxing, hitting below the belt results in a warning and if continued would result in a disqualification.

He sounds a bit of a character with regards to his other medals, although I dare say many others perhaps thought the same way.

My Dad always wore his Korean war medals but his pride and joy was the medal he got as part of the gun-crew that pulled the Kings coffin at the funeral in 1952. Rare for various reasons, but in particular as it was the 1st medal issued with the queens head on it I believe.

Regards
Alan

[Ednamay]

My dad had one similar, lost when they moved house; I gather he won it in a fleet contest in the Med when ??? sometime 1920s/30s. He boxed for his ship though I don't know which. He was only 5'7" so he must have been Lightweight (bantamweight??)

I have just received his records and I am struggling through two sides of closely written A4, one from records Whale Island and the other from archives Kew !!!!

Edna

[dennis a feary]

Wellbran, interested to see your Medal for BOXING. See here a similar awarded to my father for boxing Chatham 936. Reads ;
New entries boxing Chatham v Portsmouth 1936 Welter Weight - Runner up
Comes in `box' with A.W Matthews Goldsmith & Jeweller 32 High St Gillingham Kent

Pics included

Sadsac

[Wellbran]

Agh someone has got a boxing medal thats the first one I have seen apart from the one I have here, when you go to the big medal sites they never appear in any category is that bronze? Well they say NEVER clean or polish medals as it destroys the coating on them I think they look better aged anyway. thanks for scanning that medal and showing it here.

[dennis a feary]

WELLBRAN, yes, they are bronze - at least I assume they are - not being a metallagist. And agree re NOT CLEANING - should be left `as are'. I have heard that cleaning removes the coating - pretty obvious realy !! Also ditto re handling - fingers / skin have some sort of `nasty' that is not good for metal / paper - see handling of articles in National Library / National Archives !

Sadsac