A semi-replica of a medal my brother had bought back in the 70’s, but had since lost when his boys were young. The original manufacturer ceased making them in the early 80’s, but ironically my brother had made a wax imprint of his back when he was silversmithing, too. I had been hauling that wax imprint around in a little box of other wax patterns with my silversmithing tools for the last 45 years, but never really thought about it.
He had mentioned having lost his medal years ago when he was visiting us earlier this summer, and had never been able to find another one. I remembered having that wax imprint, so I made a pattern of it since after so many years of jostling around loose in a box, it was definitely not suitable for use in making a casting from it any more, and fashioned him a new one from scratch.
The outer frame and waves overlay were pierced from 16 gauge sheet, and the boat with cross overlay were pierced out of 20 gauge sheet, all positioned and soldered onto a base layer of 20 gauge sheet. 16 gauge round wire was used for the O-ring.