103304 | GERMANY. New Year bronze Plaque.

103304  |  GERMANY. New Year bronze Plaque. Issued 1908 (40mm x 60mm, 50.90 g, 12h). By Mayer & Wilhelm in Stuttgart.

 

Seminude Genius in flight facing, holding torch and laurel branch; in background to right, old man (representing the departing year 1907) fleeing with cane right; 1908 on radiant sun above; VIEL GLVeCK / IM / NEVEN JAHRE (good luck in the New Year) in three lines below // Blank except for rectangular inset reading "STUTTGARTER / METALLWAREN– / FABRIK / WILH. MAYER / u. FRZ. WILHELM / STUTTGART" in six lines. Edge: Plain.

 

Bernd Kaiser I, 267; Strothotte 1908-4. Choice Mint State. Tan-brown surfaces.

 

Another interesting representation of the passage of time and the arrival of a new year, this plaque (annually produced by Mayer & Wilhelm from 1900 to 1940, though with yearly variation of the designs and with some interruption from wars) features a figure of an old man who embodies the previous year now coming to an end. In the foreground, a youthful winged Genius, who embodies the emergence of the new year, revels in the radiant light of hopeful prosperity to come.

 

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Upload: 5 January 2026.