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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 51179, member: 44&quot;]Great find, evely..! I also could not pin down that exactly medal. I did find that he received 2 Spanish knighthoods; Order of Isabella and the Order of Charles III. Both of these orders use the Maltese Cross in their medals. After reading his extensive history, I doubt very much the medal is of Lincoln. He spent most of his life living outside the US in Europe and quite a lot of time in Cuba and South America. Because of a scandal involving a student in San Francisco in 1865, he left the country and never returned. He was honored around the world for his music - compositions and piano playing. Victor Hugo thought he was the best pianist in the world at that time. Chopin went out of his way to attend Gottschalk&#039;s perfomances. He died in Brazil. A US stamp was made of him in 1997.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.usstampgallery.com/view.php?id=d2bd2b998877dc1e18230482cbdd91504b509eb7" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usstampgallery.com/view.php?id=d2bd2b998877dc1e18230482cbdd91504b509eb7" rel="nofollow">http://www.usstampgallery.com/view.php?id=d2bd2b998877dc1e18230482cbdd91504b509eb7</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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