fme_780046 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - REIGN OF LEOPOLD III Médaille, Cinquantenaire de l'Union internationale de tramways et transports publics
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Price : 180.00 €
Type : Médaille, Cinquantenaire de l'Union internationale de tramways et transports publics
Date: 1935
Metal : silver plated bronze
Diameter : 81 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver HUYGELEN Frans (1878-1940)
Weight : 322,92 g.
Edge : lisse + J. FONSON
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine grise hétérogène. Présence de quelques coups et rayures. Petite usure
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Représentation allégoriques féminines des transports tournant autour du globe terrestre. Signé : HUYGELEN.
Reverse
Reverse legend : UNION INTERNATIONALE DE TRAMWAYS / DE CHEMINS DE FER D’INTERET LOCAL / ET DE TRANSPORTS PUBLICS - AUTOMOBILES // 1885 - 1935 // INTERNATIONALER VEREIN / DER STRASSENBAHNEN KLEINBAHNEN / UND DER ÖFFENTLICHEN KRAFTFAHRUNTERNEEHMEN.
Reverse description : Trois roues ailées, striées d’éclairs, figurant les tramways, les chemins de fer et les transports automobiles.
Commentary
Cette médaille commémore le 50e anniversaire de l’Union qui rassembla 1500 délégués à Bruxelles où la séance d’ouverture se déroula en présence du roi Léopold III.
Des informations sur le graveur sont lisibles dans cet article de Lux Smolderen : https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/pdf/10.1484/J.IMA.1.103713.
Des informations sur le graveur sont lisibles dans cet article de Lux Smolderen : https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/pdf/10.1484/J.IMA.1.103713.
Historical background
BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - REIGN OF LEOPOLD III
(17/12/1934-21/9/1944-16/7/1951)
Son of Albert I and grand-nephew of Leopold II, Leopold III became king following the accidental death of his father. In 1936, faced with threats of war, he put an end to the alliance with France and reaffirmed the neutrality of Belgium. In 1940, during the German invasion, he took command of the army but was quickly forced to sign an unconditional surrender. A prisoner of war, he refused any collaboration and ceased all political activity. Taken to Germany then liberated by the Allies, he retired to Switzerland while a regency was entrusted to his brother, Prince Charles (September 21, 1944). Much criticized, he regained the throne in 1950 after a referendum on the resumption of his powers. Welcomed by strikes and demonstrations, he then named Baudoin "royal prince" then abdicated in his favor in July 1951. He died in 1983.
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