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E-auction 289-209947 - fme_367431 - GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA Médaille du tunnel de la Tamise
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| Estimate : | 150 € |
| Price : | 27 € |
| Maximum bid : | 30 € |
| End of the sale : | 29 October 2018 18:47:00 |
| bidders : | 8 bidders |
Type : Médaille du tunnel de la Tamise
Date: 1842
Mint name / Town : UK, Londres
Metal : zinc
Diameter : 44 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver DAVIS BIRM.
Weight : 24 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
Très belle médaille, avec des défauts de métal mais avec sont brillant de frappe
Obverse
Obverse legend : SIR ISAMBART MARC BRUNEL . F. R. S. & C..
Obverse description : Tête nue à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ROTHERHITE ENTRANCE / / THAMES TUNNEL 1200 FEET LONG / COMMENCED 1824. CMPLETED 1482 / 76 FRETELOW HIGH WATEM / COST 450 000.
Reverse description : Vue du tunnel sous la Tamise.
Commentary
Le Tunnel sous la Tamise est un tunnel sous-fluvial passant sous la Tamise, à Londres. Il est large d'environ 11 mètres, haut d'environ 6 mètres et long d'environ 396 mètres.
Construit entre 1825 et 1843 grâce à la technique du tunnelier récemment inventée par le comte Thomas Cochrane et Marc Isambart Brunel, il est le premier tunnel connu à avoir été construit sous une rivière navigable.
Il est transformé en tunnel ferroviaire pour être intégré en 1869 à l'East London Railway, composante du Métro de Londres à partir de 1933, puis du London Overground depuis 2011.
Il ne doit pas être confondu avec le tunnel de Rotherhithe (en), ouvrage routier situé à environ 500 mètres en aval..
The Thames Tunnel is a river tunnel under the River Thames in London. It is approximately 11 meters wide, approximately 6 meters high, and approximately 396 meters long. Built between 1825 and 1843 using the recently invented tunnel boring machine technique by Count Thomas Cochrane and Marc Isambart Brunel, it is the first known tunnel to have been built under a navigable river. It was converted into a railway tunnel and incorporated in 1869 into the East London Railway, which became part of the London Underground in 1933 and became part of the London Overground in 2011. It should not be confused with the Rotherhithe Tunnel, a road structure located approximately 500 meters downstream.
Construit entre 1825 et 1843 grâce à la technique du tunnelier récemment inventée par le comte Thomas Cochrane et Marc Isambart Brunel, il est le premier tunnel connu à avoir été construit sous une rivière navigable.
Il est transformé en tunnel ferroviaire pour être intégré en 1869 à l'East London Railway, composante du Métro de Londres à partir de 1933, puis du London Overground depuis 2011.
Il ne doit pas être confondu avec le tunnel de Rotherhithe (en), ouvrage routier situé à environ 500 mètres en aval..
The Thames Tunnel is a river tunnel under the River Thames in London. It is approximately 11 meters wide, approximately 6 meters high, and approximately 396 meters long. Built between 1825 and 1843 using the recently invented tunnel boring machine technique by Count Thomas Cochrane and Marc Isambart Brunel, it is the first known tunnel to have been built under a navigable river. It was converted into a railway tunnel and incorporated in 1869 into the East London Railway, which became part of the London Underground in 1933 and became part of the London Overground in 2011. It should not be confused with the Rotherhithe Tunnel, a road structure located approximately 500 meters downstream.
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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