Context (Field collection)
Purchased from a formal store specialsing in military medals and other forms of official recognition. See receipt titled: 520252 Numizmatikai Centrum kft. Price above is for total of medals and documentation for the recipient AND his wife.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Found together / assemblage)
These medals were presented alongside a certificate in a plastic wallet (2003.141 D-G), on the 10th of January 1973.
Event Date 10/1/1973
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

Context (Production / use)
Of the three ranks of Work Medal (bronze, silver and gold) the collection only has documentation for two of them for this individual, but because gold is one of them, it can be assumed that the bronze was awarded.Work medal - bronze rank along with its accompanying documentation is missing from this collection.
Event Date 1/6/2004
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Description for 2003.141 A-G: 'A: Work Medal - gold rank (hung on ribbon). B: Representative medal (pinned on breast ribbon). C: Presentation box. D: Presentation Sleeve in grey and clear plastic. E: Certificate. F&G: 2x small certificates. Paper (certificates, other documentation), metal (medals), plastic (presentation sleeves).'
Event Date 1/6/2004
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Two Work Merit Medals of Gold Rank (A-B) in a presentation box (C), awarded on 10th of January 1973. The larger medal (A) has a red enamelled star in the middle, surrounded by a oval wreath of wheat. At the bottom there is a Hungarian flag ribbon tied in a bow, with two gold metal tools crossed over the top. The medallion hangs from a pink ribbon that has been folded into a triangle shape. The medallion of the other medal (B) is the same but smaller, and it has a pin on the back that connects it to a red and pink striped ribbon, folded into a small rectangle. The two medals sit inside depressions in the white fabric mount in the presentation box (C). The box is rectangular, with a red plastic cover, a hinged lid, and a metal clasp. There is a Disney sticker on the top, with a picture of Jasmine and the tiger from Aladdin; somebody (presumably the original owner) has written '1973.01.10' on the sticker, the date the medal was awarded.
Event Date 10/5/2023
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff