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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

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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

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~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

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