MEDALJER, två stycken, emalj och förgyllt silver m.m. Kina, tidigt 1900-tal.
Båda med porträtt av Wu Peifu. Mått 52 mm samt 40 mm.
I originalaskar, den ena med emaljskada vid flaggan.
Proveniens
Given to Carl Victor Lagerholm by Wu Peifu. Wu Peifu (1874-1939), was a major figure in the struggles between the warlords who dominated Republican China from 1916 to 1927. Known in China as the Jade Marshall.
In 1901 the Swedish Engineers Carl Lagerholm and Wilhelm Olivecrona, was comissioned by the Russian-Chinese Bank to investigate and plan a railroad from the Russian-Chinese border by Kiachta to Beijing trough Mongolia and their capital Ulan Bator. The Trans- Mongolian railroad was completed in 1919.
Carl Victor Lagerholm owned a part of the Imperial Hotel in Hong Kong in the 1930's.
Litteratur
Compare another examples of these two medals in the Harry Mohler Collection, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.