fme_820552 - GREAT-BRITAIN - GEORGE VI Médaille, Mariage Georges VI avec Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon
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Type : Médaille, Mariage Georges VI avec Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon
Date: 1923
Metal : gilt bronze
Diameter : 50 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver HOLY Jules (1872-1950)
Weight : 51,01 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène, une très légère usure sur les hauts reliefs. Présence de quelques coups et rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : G VI R.
Obverse description : Au dessus des deux médaillons à l’effigie de Georges VI et Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon, affrontés, est affiché le monogramme de Georges VI surmonté d’une couronne. Signé : MOURGEON ED.T et HOLY SC..
Reverse
Reverse legend : LISSE.
Commentary
La médaille est conservée dans un écrin marron avec feutrine violine et soie blanche, timbrée GEORGE MORGAN, London.
The medal is kept in a brown case with purple felt and white silk, stamped GEORGE MORGAN, London
The medal is kept in a brown case with purple felt and white silk, stamped GEORGE MORGAN, London
Historical background
GREAT-BRITAIN - GEORGE VI
(11/12/1936-6/02/1952)
Georges VI (14/12/1895-6/02/1952) is the youngest son of Georges V and Mary de Treck. He is the brother of Edward VIII who succeeded Georges V on January 20, 1936, but who was forced to abdicate the same year because he decided to marry Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson, twice divorced, and because his Germanophilia displeases strongly to power circles in England. George VI has two daughters, Elisabeth and Margaret. During the Second World War, he was the symbol of English resistance to Nazism. After the war, in 1947 he had to ratify the independence of the Indian Empire which, after a horrible civil war, was divided to form India and Pakistan. He died of cancer in 1952.
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