{"id":303,"date":"2017-12-14T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/?p=303"},"modified":"2020-11-07T01:27:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T07:27:41","slug":"barque-of-st-peter-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"Barque of St. Peter Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"843\" height=\"843\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/medal-peters_boat.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/medal-peters_boat.jpg 843w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/medal-peters_boat-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/medal-peters_boat-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/medal-peters_boat-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/medal-peters_boat-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Sterling silver <strong>Barque of St. Peter medal<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A semi-replica of a medal my brother had bought back in the 70&#8217;s, but had since lost when his boys were young. The original manufacturer ceased making them in the early 80&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A semi-replica of a medal my brother had bought back in the 70&#8217;s, but had since lost when his boys were young. The original manufacturer ceased making them in the early 80&#8217;s, but ironically my brother had made a wax imprint of his back when he was silversmithing, too. I had been hauling that wax &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/?p=303\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Barque of St. Peter Medal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}