The Peking Seige Medal
The 57 mm bronze medal created by J. Taylor Foot, London Medalist
Obverse of Peking Siege medal awarded to Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover. Hoover, the future President of the US, was a consultant to a Chinese Engineering and Mining Company. Artifact from the collection of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, West Branch, Iowa
The 57 mm bronze medal created by J. Taylor Foot, London Medalist
The obverse depicts the Chien-Men Gate to Peking engulfed in flames, with a cannon below,
and the curved inscription JUNII XX - AUGUSTI XIV, A.D. MDCCCC around the upper edge. The
reverse showing Britannia and Germania clasping hands, with a Chinese figure in the
background and a Dragon below, and the curved inscription, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN
around the upper edge and below ICHABOD!
The Peking Siege Commemoration Medals were struck at the instigation of Mr. Arthur D. Brent, an employee of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, who was himself present throughout the siege, and were presented to those who were present at the Defense of Legations, June 20 to August 14, 1900. The inscription on the reverse represents the words that appear on the wall of Rembrandt’s Belshazzar's Feast and were interpreted to mean, “Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.” Taken from the Book of Daniel, the words are a portent of doom.
Recipients include Herbert and Lou Hoover, G. E. Morrison from the Times of Peking, Miss Juliet Bredon, W. A. P. Martin from the Imperial University, J. H. Macoun, Agnes D’Arc and C. M. Jewell.
The Peking Siege Commemoration Medals were struck at the instigation of Mr. Arthur D. Brent, an employee of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, who was himself present throughout the siege, and were presented to those who were present at the Defense of Legations, June 20 to August 14, 1900. The inscription on the reverse represents the words that appear on the wall of Rembrandt’s Belshazzar's Feast and were interpreted to mean, “Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.” Taken from the Book of Daniel, the words are a portent of doom.
Recipients include Herbert and Lou Hoover, G. E. Morrison from the Times of Peking, Miss Juliet Bredon, W. A. P. Martin from the Imperial University, J. H. Macoun, Agnes D’Arc and C. M. Jewell.
Obverse of Peking Siege medal awarded to Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover. Hoover, the future President of the US, was a consultant to a Chinese Engineering and Mining Company. Artifact from the collection of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, West Branch, Iowa
An impressive Defense of Legations Group to J.H. Macoun, Imperial Chinese (Maritime) Customs
Agent, who was commended by Sir Claude McDonald for his courage in the Prince Su's Park Sector,
where he was wounded in the thigh, and later became the author of a privately published account
of the siege.'
His medals from top to bottom and left to right:
(a) China, Order of the Golden Grain, Commander's neck Badge, silver-gilt
(b) China, Order of the Precious Star for Judiciary Service, Second Class breast Star, silver-gilt
(c) China, Order of the Double Dragon, Second Class (Third Grade) neck Badge
(d) UK China 1900, one clasp, DEFENCE OF LEGATIONS
(e) Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Defense of Legations bronze Medal
(f) Shanghai Municipality's Jubilee 1893
His medals from top to bottom and left to right:
(a) China, Order of the Golden Grain, Commander's neck Badge, silver-gilt
(b) China, Order of the Precious Star for Judiciary Service, Second Class breast Star, silver-gilt
(c) China, Order of the Double Dragon, Second Class (Third Grade) neck Badge
(d) UK China 1900, one clasp, DEFENCE OF LEGATIONS
(e) Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Defense of Legations bronze Medal
(f) Shanghai Municipality's Jubilee 1893
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