Medal News

Fair or not? AS we go to press, we learn that there is to be NO Orders and Medals Research Society (OMRS) Annual Convention this year. This is not unexpected inasmuch that we would normally have heard long before now were a Convention to have been in the offing. To be honest, we aren’t...

STOLEN in a distraction burglary at a family home in Warwick on April 12 (a horrid thing, the occupants were both at home and tried to confront the robbers, luckily they weren’t hurt) six groups of miniatures including those attributed to: Sergeant A Mountain VC; Commander A Auten VC, DSC. RN...

Happy birthday to us . . . SOMEHOW, it is April 2023 and that means that Token Publishing Ltd is 40 years old! We officially became a limited company on April 5, 1983, and somehow, four decades later, we are still here! We’ve come a long, long way in those 40 years, from publishing just one...

Tell us more! THANKS to all those who responded to last month’s editorial (“Of interest?”, February 2023) on the subject of whether or not articles and news pieces covering the medals costing £1,000s, the world records, etc., should continue. For those of you who didn’t see last month’s...

Of interest? I RECEIVED an interesting letter just before Christmas, it was from a gentleman who told us that it was “depressing to read articles every month of people buying items for hundreds of thousands of pounds with limited or no coverage for other collectors like me”. Now, I have to...

KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON WELL we made it, we finally got to the end of a full year without any Covid-related lockdowns! Certainly, things aren’t “back to normal” completely, Covid is still around, and it sometimes feels as if we’re “waiting for the other shoe to drop” and living permanently under...