Mänttä-Vilppula Railway Jetons

Gold, enamel.
Size 25x36mm.
Weight 14.60gm.

Marked R.M for Roland Mellin workshop https://asiamedals.info/threads/bad...ade-by-otto-roland-mellin-workshop-r-m.23241/

Coats of arms of the districts of Häme and Vaasa on obverse and reverse.
By 1883 the Tampere line had been extended over 300 km northwards via Haapamäki and Seinäjoki to Vaasa.
Vaasa (in Finnish) = Wasa Banan (in Swedish).
Jeton belong to Edvard af Forselles (a Finnish Senator).

Marks.

 

Another gold jeton of different design made by the Roland Mellin workshop from the collection of Serlachius Museums.