Live auction - fme_554945 - GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA Médaille, Mariage de Léopold, Duc d’Albany avec la Princesse Hélène de Waldeck et Pyrmont
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| Estimate : | 1 000 € |
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| End of the sale : | 03 December 2019 18:39:30 |
Type : Médaille, Mariage de Léopold, Duc d’Albany avec la Princesse Hélène de Waldeck et Pyrmont
Date: 1882
Metal : silver
Diameter : 63,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver WYON
Weight : 155 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire ayant été nettoyé. Des traces de frottements sont visibles dans les champs. Coup sur la joue du Duc
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la Collection Terisse
Obverse
Obverse legend : LEOPOLD DUKE OF ALBANY, K . G . (FLEUR À CINQ PÉTALES) PRINCESS HELEN OF WALDECK (FLEUR À CINQ PÉTALES).
Obverse description : Leurs têtes nues accolées à droite. Signé sous le tranché du cou du Duc : J. S. & A. B. WYON.
Reverse
Reverse legend : 27 APRIL 1882.
Reverse description : A l’intérieur d’un quadrilobe leurs blasons surmontés chacun d’une couronne. Au dessus un noeud de ruban. Au dessous, sur deux branches en sautoir une banderole inscrite.
Commentary
Cette médaille célèbre le mariage de Léopold, Duc d’Albany et fils de la Reine Victoria, avec la Princesse Hélène de Waldeck et Pyrmont.
Historical background
GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA
(20/06/1837-22/01/1901)
Victoria (1819-1901) was the daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent, and granddaughter of George III. She succeeded her uncle Guillaume IV in 1837 and married her cousin Albert, Prince of Saxe-Coburg in 1840, against her mother's advice. She had nine children by him but became a widow in 1861. While respecting the rules of the parliamentary system, she tried to impose her views in the field of foreign affairs. Her favourite, Disraeli, had her given the title of Empress of India in 1876. Respected and loved, active and authoritarian, Victoria appeared in her time as the symbol of imperialist England. His reign marks the height of British power.
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