American Legion 1925 Bronze School Award calligraphy instruction This is the second solid

This is the second solid brass duck of this ilk that I have found

I've really fallen in love with these old clay marbles

if not to used as a purse

winding its way up and around the R from its cross-hatched pot below would be the perfect thing to hang in the room of a child with a first name starting with "R

and for me makes this about the most tender and heartfelt whimsy that I've seen

American Legion 1925 Bronze School Award calligraphy instruction This is the second solidNever a bad thing to honor Courage, Character, and Service, and this 1925 bronze American Legion School Award does so quite beautifully I think. The American Legion was established in Paris in 1919 under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt to deal with the needs and well being of the nearly two million veterans returning from France after WWI, and in 1922 established a School Awards Program to honor outstanding graduating students. This medal to