Item number: M517

Year: AD 1905-1912

Material: Silver

Size: 29 x 25.5 mm

Weight: 11.0 g

Provenance: Champion Leilao Lda. 2025

This is a commemorative medal from AD 1942 marking the third anniversary of Wen Shizhen taking office as the Mayor of Tianjin.

The medal is circular in shape. On the obverse is a left-profile half-length bust of Wen Shizhen, bounded by an outer rim. In the centre of the reverse, the vertical inscription reads ‘Commemorating the Third Anniversary of the Mayor Taking Office’, flanked by the characters ’24 March, 21st Year of the Republic of China / Presented by Wen Shizhen’. The script employs a Japanese Kanji seal-script style commonly used during the Showa era. However, as Wen Shizhen assumed the position of Mayor of the Tianjin Special Municipality in the 28th year of the Republic of China (AD 1939), the phrase ’21st year of the Republic of China’ is presumably an error for the ’31st year of the Republic of China’.

Wen Shizhen, courtesy name Peishan, was born in Tianjin, Zhili, in the 3rd year of the Guangxu reign of the Qing dynasty (AD 1877). Having graduated from the Beiyang Naval Academy in his early years, he served in the navy and rose to the rank of lieutenant before transitioning into diplomacy. He successively held positions such as secretary for foreign affairs in the Viceroy’s Office of Liangjiang, special diplomatic envoy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Zhejiang, and diplomatic envoy to Nanjing concurrently serving as Superintendent of the Jinling Customs. In AD 1921, he joined the delegation as an honorary advisor to the Washington Conference. In AD 1924, earning the favour of Yang Yuting, the Military Governor of Jiangsu, he was appointed Commissioner for Foreign Affairs in Shanghai and Superintendent of the Jianghai Customs, holding these positions until he fled to Japan after the National Revolutionary Army captured Shanghai in AD 1927. Following the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, he re-emerged within Japanese-backed puppet regimes—namely the Provisional Government of the Republic of China and the Reorganised National Government of the Republic of China in Nanjing—where he successively succeeded Cheng Xigeng and Pan Yugui as Superintendent of Tianjin Customs and Mayor of the Tianjin Special Municipality. After the war, he was arrested first by the Nationalist Government and subsequently by the People’s Government, ultimately being executed in AD 1951.

物件編號: M517

年代: 公元 1905-1912 年

材質: 銀

尺寸: 29 x 25.5 mm

重量: 11.0 g

來源: 冠軍拍賣 2025

這是一枚公元1942年，溫世珍就職天津市長三周年的紀念章。

章體呈圓形。正面為溫世珍的左側半側身像。章緣有邊環。背面中央豎列為「市長就職三週年記念」，兩側為「中華民國二十一年三月二十四日 / 溫世珍贈」。文字為昭和時期常用的日文漢字篆書。但溫世珍就任天津特別市市長為民國二十八年（公元1939年），因此，「民國二十一年」或為「民國三十一年」之誤字。

溫世珍，字佩珊，清光緒三年（公元1877年）生於直隸天津。早年畢業於北洋水師學堂，曾於海軍服役並升至中尉，後轉入外交領域，歷任兩江總督署洋務文案、外交部特派浙江交涉員、南京交涉員兼金陵海關監督，並曾作為名譽顧問隨行參加公元1921年華盛頓會議；公元1924年獲江蘇軍務督辦楊宇霆賞識而出任上海外交交涉員兼江海關監督，至公元1927年國民革命軍佔領上海後流亡日本；抗日戰爭爆發後於日本支持的魁儡政權，中華民國臨時政府與南京國民政府復出，先後接替程錫庚與潘毓桂，任職天津海關監督及天津特別市市長等職。戰後，先後被國民政府與人民政府逮捕，最終於公元1951年處決。