SOCIETY OF AMERICAN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES - MEDAL - $2,500 - (Bear, DE)

For sale is THE OLD RARE MEDAL OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES, WHICH DATES BACK TO 1897 THE DATE OF IT'S FOUNDING. MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED SEVICE AS A COMMISSIONED OFFICER FROM 1607 ON OR DIRECT DESCENDENT FROM ONE WHO SERVED IN THE TIME FRAME. THE REVERSE OF THE MEDAL HAS THE MEMBER'S NUMBER AND INITIALS - THIS MEDAL IS NUMBER 777 AND THE INITIALS ARE Z.L.T. IN ORDER TO FIND OUT WHO THIS MEDAL BELONGED TO ONE WOULD HAVE TO GET HOLD OF THE MEMBERSHIP ROSTERS OF ALL OF THE COMMANDERIES ESPECIALLY THE ONES FROM NEW YORK AND D.C. THIS IS AN ESPECIALLY SCARCE AND RARE MEDAL AS MILITARY SOCIETIES GO. ON THE REVERSE OF THE MEDAL AROUND IT EACH OF THE WAR PERIODS ARE LISTED DURING WHICH TIME AN OFFICER WOULD HAVE HAD TO HAVE SERVED IN ORDER TO OBTAIN MEMBERSHIP. THEY ARE AS FOLLOWS: 1607 TO 1775, 1698, 1861-1865, 1845 -1849, 1882, 1776-1787.

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