Lot 2824

1914 - Communist Party medal, attributed to Henk Sneevliet - medal in the shape of an 8-pointed star with a central CP monogram (Communist Party ?!) on a red-black-red ribbon, silver 33 mm, XF, on the back a maker's mark (∙FR∙ = F.C. Ronchatti, Rotterdam ?) accompanied by a cardboard card "Draagpenning van de Indonesische Partij, door Sneevliet in 1914 gedragen en door den (…) controleur F.W. Stammeshaus hem in den trein bij Semarang ontrukt tijdens een vechtpartij." - NB Hendricus Josephus Franciscus Marie Sneevliet (Rotterdam 1883 – Kamp Amersfoort 1942), marxist, politician and resistance fighter, lived in the Dutch East Indies between 1913 and 1918 and was in May 1914 co-founded of the Indische Sociaal-Democratische Vereeniging, the later Partai Komunis Indonesia; he was also involved with the communist parties of Russia and China. Friedrich Wilhelm Stammeshaus (1881-1957), soldier, administrator and ethnographic collector, was ‘controleur’ in Aceh but participated in 1914 in the Colonial Exhibition in Semarang.