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Live auction - fme_1013388 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD II Plaquette, Constantin-Eugène de Burlet

BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD II Plaquette, Constantin-Eugène de Burlet XF
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Type : Plaquette, Constantin-Eugène de Burlet
Date: 1909
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 78,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver DEVREESE Godefroid (1861- 1941)
Weight : 104,25 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine marron hétérogène avec des taches noires d’oxydation et quelques points d’usure sur certains hauts reliefs. Présence de quelques rayures

Obverse


Obverse legend : A C. DE BURLET / DIRECTEUR GENERAL DE LA S.TE NATIONALE / DES CHEMINS DE FER VICINAUX. / .L’UNION DES CESSIONNAIRES. / 1884. D’EXPLOITATION. 1909.
Obverse description : Buste habillé de profil à gauche, signé : G. DEVREESE.

Reverse


Reverse legend : LISSE.

Commentary


Dimensions : 78,5*48,5 mm.
Constantin-Eugène de Burlet (1846-1925) est un ingénieur, haut-fonctionnaire, chef d'entreprise spécialisé dans le transport ferroviaire et bourgmestre belge du Parti catholique. Il a été l'un des principaux promoteurs et créateurs de chemins de fer en Belgique et à l'étranger.

Historical background


BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD II

(10/12/1865-17/12/1909)

Leopold II (9/04/1835-17/12/1909) is the eldest son of Leopold I and Louise d'Orléans. He married Marie-Henriette, Archduchess of Austria, who bore him three daughters: Louise, Stéphanie, and Clémentine. He relied on England to repel the aims of Napoleon III in 1866-1869. His reign was marked by the economic and industrial development of Belgium, which also became a great colonial power thanks to the personal annexation of the Congo by the king at the Congress of Berlin in 1885. Without a male heir, his nephew Albert I succeeded him. in 1909. He bequeathed the Congo to Belgium in 1908.

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