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A new addition to eBay is this QSA disc which I think is the saddest QSA I have ever seen.



It is named to 4018 SJT. W. JONES. DEVON: REG. Looking at the roll, he would have been entitled to 6 clasps on his QSA. He died of enteric on 2 Feb 1901.

A very sad specimen.

Regards
David

David,

Looks awful. Badly fire damaged. Seems as though it was converted into a fob pendant or brooch by a relative.

BUT...

At least it still it still has his name on it.

Personally, I think the second most poor are those that have been erased or renamed with someone else's name. Though with modern technology (given what's happening in the art world) it must be possible to read the original through UV etc.

The poorest are those that were melted down during the 1970's silver boom/scandal...

Justin

Agree the worst scandal of all, the melting down in the 70's of hundreds if not thousands of silver medals. Probably accounts for missing BWM in WW1 sets. I know, I have a few.

Lee.

I was told of a well-known dealer in South Africa, now dead, who broke up WWI groups and melted down the War Medals for their silver content. That is what happens when the metal value of a medal (or anything else) exceeds its collector's value. Perhaps he thought that, with millions of War Medals issued, it was a crime that would pass unnoticed.

Brett