European Militaria | Sold Items

Offered is an original Republic of Finland Commemorative Medal of the War of Liberation 1918 by Sporrong of Stockholm 30mm wide circular silvered iron medal with magnetic core and with loop for ribbon suspension; the face with a cross pattée with a cross gammée imposed and a central rose of Finland, a gauntleted arm holding a sword upper left, a mailed arm holding a scimitar upper right (both from the national arms of Finland) and dated ‘1918’; the reverse with the lion of Finland, signed ‘S & Co’ (for Sporrong & Co) and hallmarked; on original ribbon. The Medal was instituted on 10 September 1918 by the Finnish Senate and awarded for participation in the war to secure Finnish independence from Russia. The first examples were made in blackened or silvered iron, as here, later examples in silver. Sporrong & Co, founded in Sweden in 1666, are the foremost maker of orders and medals.