Featured Sterling silver medal.

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  1. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    Look at this beautiful medal, awarded for gymnastics in 1949, but who or what was Don Duo 1944 ?

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    daveydempsey, Feb 9, 2020
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  2. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Nike/Victoria on the obverse.
     
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  3. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    J. Bishop was obviously ace at hand balancing.
    They just don't give medals like this anymore.
     
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  4. KikoBlueEyes

    KikoBlueEyes Well-Known Member

    I found some things about the Hand Balancing Competitions. This seems to be a separate activity than gymnastics.

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  5. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    So this is the medal for a duo?
     
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  6. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    I look at hand balancing like on the parallel bars, single beam or hanging rings.

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  7. daveydempsey

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    If it was a duo it would be winners rather than winner ?
    I wonder if duo was two hands and Don is the abbreviated location.
     
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  8. KikoBlueEyes

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  9. SBSVC

    SBSVC Well-Known Member

    Might "Don Duo 1944" be the name of the act or something?

    The medal seems to have been awarded for a competition in DEC 1949.
     
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  10. johnnycb09

    johnnycb09 Well-Known Member

    Maybe Don Duo was only 5 when he won ?;)
     
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  11. blooey

    blooey Well-Known Member

    Not too much outside of wartime efforts going on in '44 in Britain - but maybe I'm off on that.
     
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  12. sabre123

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  13. KSW

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  14. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Maybe the competition was in 1944 but medals were not awarded until 1949 for war-related reasons. It looks quite a high quality medal.
     
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  15. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    River Don, perhaps?
     
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  16. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    Solved.

    The medal belonged to the father of the deceased house clearance.
    I found quite a bit of documentation in the house today.

    The Don Duo were a cabaret act and strongmen show.

    Headed notepaper.

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    Found about 4 of these huge cerificates, I had to scan in two halves and join them.

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    I also discovered today that the deceased lady was the widow of a guy I used to work with years ago.

    He died on duty 27 years ago aged 49.

    I started finding photographs of John, and police items , I then felt really weird.

    We worked together for a couple of years back in the early 80's, he always had your back and was a trusted partner.

    And here's me going through his stuff all those years later. :(
     
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  17. SBSVC

    SBSVC Well-Known Member

    Maybe you should think of it this way, Davey:
    Maybe it's better that it's you, and not a complete stranger...(?)
     
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  18. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    I did think that and I'm keeping some of the stuff,were as someone else might have ditched it.
    I'm actually now wearing his watch and going through some of his music.
     
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  19. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Definitely better you; you'd know which pieces of police kit were important to the deceased and which were just old rubbish. A regular person wouldn't.
     
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  20. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    I thînk that this was meant to be Davey. That someone who would respect him and his possessions would sort them out for him. I bet he's up there with a huge grin on his face at you wearing his watch and enjoying his music. Move on the bits that mean nothing and keep the bits that he'd want you to have.
     
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