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Judaica / Zionism - USA - Unusual medal for extraordinary service in helping others, awarded in 1929 to S. A. Fink Danville Illinois - extremely rare
USA 1929 Illinois Award Medal for Outstanding Human Service
Front: a relief of a woman with a merciful look who leans forward and covers with her arms a figure of a mother, a boy and a girl who reach out their hands for mercy, from the sides, a pair of lamps above which are decorated with signs of David
Back: Inscription in English: Medal of Honor commemorating unusual human service awarded to S. A. Fink Danville Illinois, United Jewish Campaign, David A Brown national chairman 1929"
Signed in the language "whitehead - hoag". Bronze, diameter 82 mm, thickness 5 mm and weight 220 g
USA 1929 Illinois Award Medal for Outstanding Human Service
Front: a relief of a woman with a merciful look who leans forward and covers with her arms a figure of a mother, a boy and a girl who reach out their hands for mercy, from the sides, a pair of lamps above which are decorated with signs of David
Back: Inscription in English: Medal of Honor commemorating unusual human service awarded to S. A. Fink Danville Illinois, United Jewish Campaign, David A Brown national chairman 1929"
Signed in the language "whitehead - hoag". Bronze, diameter 82 mm, thickness 5 mm and weight 220 g