Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1898 — Value of War Medals. [ARTICLE]

Value of War Medals.

There has just been erected in the Mount Clare shops of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Baltimore a new high pressure steam boiler for the purpose of testing locomotive boilers under steam pressure. Heretofore a locomotive had to be hauled to the outside of the shop, fire built in the firebox and steam gotten up in order to make a test, this method consuming much valuable time. Under the new arrangement all this is done while the engine is standing in the shop, a system of steam pipes having been arranged so that the engines on any track in the erecting shop can be tested without being removed.

Some idea of what British war medals are worth was furnished by the prices obtained at a recent sale In London, when an East Indian company’s gold medal for the Egyptian campaign of 1801 realized £SO, the Sultan’s gold medal Tor Egypt, 1801, £l6; a New Zealand medal, 1845 to 1847, £6 ss, and a London volunteer medal, presented by Maj. Thomas Drury, June 12, 1799 which in all probability is unique--115 10s.