Jeanne, If no one has been able to decipher the inscription for you, if you'll send me the picture of the medal as an attachment I'll take a look at it in Photoshop where I can enlarge it and perhaps find out what it says. Cliff. Johnston "May the best you've ever seen, Be the worst you'll ever see;" from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norsky" <norsky@mtintouch.net> To: <IRL-ANTRIM@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:07 AM Subject: [IRL-ANTRIM] 1733 Medallion Mystery - HELP! Little, Lyttle, Lytle > Re: JOHN LITTLE, LYTTLE, LYTLE (b. 1822, Alfred, Upper Canada) > > I need list members' help in reading some wording on a silver medallion > dated 1733 that has been in my Little/Lyttle/Lytle family for a long, long > time. Good Eyes Required :) > > There are some words etched on the coin (other than it's own minted > wording) that I cannot read. I think this may be partly due to the fact > that the names/places are not familiar to me. I am hoping someone will be > able to give me some direction re. where in Ireland or Scotland my > SCOT-IRISH great-grandfather's family came from prior to arriving in > Prescott (Alfred) and Renfrew (Westmeath and Pembroke) Counties, ONT > Canada, in the early 1800's. (He then left Canada for the state of > Wisconsin in the US about 1850'ish.) > > The URL below will take you to the website of a cousin who has consented > to let me use her website for this rather large file. > > http://users.ecenet.com/wdcopper/medallion.html - "The Medallion Mystery" > (Click on the image on this page and wait a bit. A larger and fairly > clear picture of the coin will appear.) It is not a perfect > image--neither is the original. > > I would appreciate anyone's help in reading the words etched on this > silver medallion--and any historical perspective as well, if you have it. > > Many thanks to anyone who can help. > > Jeanne > norsky@mtintouch.net > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-ANTRIM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Great! I am at work presently, but I'll get to it this evening. I am not a picture wizard unfortunately :) Jeanne Jeanne, > > If no one has been able to decipher the inscription for you, if you'll > send > me the picture of the medal as an attachment I'll take a look at it in > Photoshop where I can enlarge it and perhaps find out what it says. > > Cliff. Johnston > "May the best you've ever seen, > Be the worst you'll ever see;" > from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Norsky" <norsky@mtintouch.net> > To: <IRL-ANTRIM@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:07 AM > Subject: [IRL-ANTRIM] 1733 Medallion Mystery - HELP! Little, Lyttle, Lytle > > >> Re: JOHN LITTLE, LYTTLE, LYTLE (b. 1822, Alfred, Upper Canada) >> >> I need list members' help in reading some wording on a silver medallion >> dated 1733 that has been in my Little/Lyttle/Lytle family for a long, >> long >> time. Good Eyes Required :) >> >> There are some words etched on the coin (other than it's own minted >> wording) that I cannot read. I think this may be partly due to the fact >> that the names/places are not familiar to me. I am hoping someone will >> be >> able to give me some direction re. where in Ireland or Scotland my >> SCOT-IRISH great-grandfather's family came from prior to arriving in >> Prescott (Alfred) and Renfrew (Westmeath and Pembroke) Counties, ONT >> Canada, in the early 1800's. (He then left Canada for the state of >> Wisconsin in the US about 1850'ish.) >> >> The URL below will take you to the website of a cousin who has consented >> to let me use her website for this rather large file. >> >> http://users.ecenet.com/wdcopper/medallion.html - "The Medallion >> Mystery" >> (Click on the image on this page and wait a bit. A larger and fairly >> clear picture of the coin will appear.) It is not a perfect >> image--neither is the original. >> >> I would appreciate anyone's help in reading the words etched on this >> silver medallion--and any historical perspective as well, if you have >> it. >> >> Many thanks to anyone who can help. >> >> Jeanne >> norsky@mtintouch.net >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IRL-ANTRIM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-ANTRIM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >