VOCABULARY TERMS: REISSUES AND REJECTS

Reissue. A second or repeated issue, after a lapse of time, by an authorized issuer, with only a slight change, if any, in form or composition. A reissue occurs when a need or demand exists, as the reactivation of an award program where the original award medal is again produced. Or perhaps, a once popular medal is issued again after the death of the artist or copyrights have expired and the design is in public domain. Copy dies are sometimes made to strike these reissued items if the original dies are no longer available. A reissue can be reinstated by the original sponsor or publisher, or by some new issuer who does have authority.

A reissue is not to be confused with restrike (issued without authority from original dies) nor is it to be con- fused with revision (a second or repeated issue requiring a change in dies) by the same issuer. See copies and replicas.

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Reject. An improperly made object; one that is damaged, malformed or otherwise not up to quality requirements. Rejects are usually caught by an inspection, discarded or destroyed, and never intentionally issued, although, obviously, some rejects reach the hands of the public, collectors or others. See inspection.

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Rejected Design. A medallic design prepared by an artist that for any reason may be unacceptable for final publication; it may be in the form of sketches, clay or plaster models. Rejected designs are most often the early stages of a work which an artist later changes and completes for ultimate acceptance. Also rejected designs likely to be encountered are those of design competitions that were not the winning entry; even the most successful artist will have several of these around his studio if he enters any number of such contests. Infrequently rejected designs which have proceeded as far as models and which have redeeming artistic merit, sometimes become stock designs at a later time. Medallist Ralph J. Menconi had the habit of burying models he considered unacceptable in the back yard of his home-studio in Pleasantville New York; the subsequent owner of the property later unearthed several of these rejected plaster models.

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