1956 Sweden Gustaf VI 23k Gold Medal Of Merit Royal Patriotic Society Boxed Rare
1956 SWEDEN GUSTAF VI 23K GOLD MEDAL OF MERIT ROYAL PATRIOTIC SOCIETY BOXED NAMED TO ERIK LINDQUIST RARE! Medal of the Royal Patriotic Society. With portrait of Gustaf VI Adolf, marked GULD and 1956. Original case and ribbon in yellow and green.
Weight including ribbon about 18.76 grams. Medal X-RAY tested 23K Gold, Ribbon Ring tested 18K Gold. MEDAL IS STAMPED ON RIM NEAR CROWN : MJV GULD 1956.
SUSPENSION RING IS STAMPED: J. THE SWEDISH PATRIOTIC SOCIETY FOR ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS, CRAFTS AND THE COUNTRY'S INDUSTRIES WAS ESTABLISHED IN THE MID 18th CENTURY. THE SOCIETY WAS GRANTED ITS ARTICLES AND THE PREFIX "ROYAL" BY KING GUSTAF III IN 1772.
THE SOCIETY WAS GIVEN PERMISSION TO ISSUE MEDALS IN 1802 AND CONFERRED THE RIGHT TO WEAR THE MEDALS TO THE RECIPIENT. THE SOCIETY WAS A FOCAL POINT FOR PERSONS OF PROMINENCE IN THE FIELDS OF GOVERNMENT, TRADE, SCIENCE, AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY, AND GAVE THE SOCIETY MEMBERS A VENUE TO DISCUSS NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND DISCOVERIES AND THEIR APPLICATION IN THEIR VARIOUS FIELDS. 1950, DEPICTED ON THE MEDAL'S OBVERSE, WAS THE OLDEST AND SECOND-LONGEST REIGNING MONARCH OF SWEDEN. A CONSERVATIVE, HE WAS THE LAST MONARCH TO BE SUPREME HEAD OF THE SWEDISH ARMED FORCES AND TO INTERVENE DIRECTLY IN THE POLITICS OF HIS NATION. ASCENDING TO THE THRONE IN 1907, HE REPLACED LIBERAL PRIME MINISTER KARL STAAF IN 1914.GUSTAF PLACED A FIGUREHEAD, HJALMAR HAMARSKÖLD IN THE POSITION WHO REMAINED IN PLACE THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. DURING WWI GUSTAF HELD A PRO-GERMAN ANTI-COMMUNIST STANCE, ALTHOUGH OFFICIALLY SWEDEN REMIANED NUETRAL. LIBERALS AND SOCIAL DEMOCRATS SUCCEDED IN FORMING A NEW GOVERNMENT IN 1917 UNDER NILS EDÉN, WHO STRIPPED THE KING OF HIS QUASI-ABSOLUTE POWERS, ENACTED EQUAL SUFFRAGE FOR WOMEN, AND TRANSITIONED SWEDEN TO A PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY. THE ROYAL PREROGATIVES CONTINUED TO BE EXERCISED BY GUSTAF V, THE LAST SWEDISH MONARCH TO DO SO, AND THOSE POWERS WERE ULTIMATELY ABOLISHED BY PARLIAMENT IN 1974. GUSTAF WAS POPULAR THROUGHOUT HIS REIGN AND CONCEDED TO THE PRINICPALS OF PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY AND TO BEING THE FIGUREHEAD OF THE COUNTRY.
IN 1943, THE YEAR THIS MEDAL WAS AWARDED, SWEDEN WAS AGAIN NUETRAL IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR. ALTHOUGH GUSTAF URGED THE COALITION GOVERNMENT OF SWEDEN TO GIVE IN TO NAZI GERMANY'S LOGISTICS REQUESTS, HE APPARENTLY DID NOT SUPPORT FACISM OR THE NAZIS, AND TO REFUSE THEM WOULD HAVE POSSIBLY PROVOKED AN INVASION. SWEDEN ALSO SUPPORTED THE DANISH RESISTANCE AND HELPED IN THE RESCUE OF DANISH JEWS FROM GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS. All items are guaranteed genuine!