VOCABULARY: GUILLOCHE, HALF-AND-HALF MEDAL

Guilloche Border. A kind of ornament border formed of two or more strands twisted over each other in series, leaving circular openings which are filled with dots. A medal of an Unknown Lady in the Samuel H. Kress collection (514) has such a border. See border.

For more information on the Kres collection, see:
COMPLETE CATALOGUE OF THE SAMUEL H· KRESS COLLECTION RENAISSANCE MEDALS BY G· F· HILL AND G· POLLARD (http://www.kressfoundation.org/uploadedFiles/
sacKress_Collection/Renaissance%20Medals.pdf)

Half-and-Half Medal. Two award medals physically cut in half and one of each half soldered back together; they are awarded to the two contestants who tied in the contest for which the awards were made. Such half-and-half medals are particularly dramatic because the medals are of differing colors, as gold and silver, or silver and bronze. They have been observed only for sports awards, and then only rarely.

To watch the complete video, see:
The Half-Silver and Half-Bronze Olympic Medals (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE2LqC73KsQ)

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