Qing Conquest Commemorative Medal/征清紀念章

Specimen from a personal collection.

Obverse

征清紀念 - Qing Conquest Commemorative

Excellent craftsmanship.

Reverse marked.

Tokyo workshop Tenshōdō /天賞堂/ https://asiamedals.info/threads/medals-badges-watch-fobs-made-by-tenshodo-workshop.29582/ mark is poorly readable (another medal from the same manufacturer with the same mark https://asiamedals.info/threads/1894-95-sino-japanese-war-commemorative-medal.26220/)

Ribbon.

 

Medals of this design were manufactured by two Tokyo workshops: Gyokuhō and Tenshōdō.

Advertisement of Gyokuhō /玉寶堂/ workshop that was published in June 1904. Note that obverse doesn't have inscription "征清紀念 - Qing Conquest Commemorative". See https://asiamedals.info/threads/badges-and-watch-fobs-made-by-gyokuho-workshop.27616/

 

Advertisement of Tenshōdō workshop /天賞堂/ that was published in 1895.

 

Another salty example of this rare unofficial commemorative medal.

It once belong to the veteran of First Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars who served as shichō yu sotsu /輜重輸卒/ - member of the army army transport support unit.