Live auction - fme_1116640 - GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA Médaille, Exposition Victoria de Londres
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Live starting : Type : Médaille, Exposition Victoria de Londres
Date: 1862
Metal : tin
Diameter : 52 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 41,83 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec des traces de rayures et quelques coups, sur les deux faces et la tranche. Médaille probablement nettoyée
Obverse
Obverse legend : THE MICHT OF INDUSTRY THE GLORY OF PEACE // THE CRYSTAL PALACE / SYDENHAM.
Obverse description : Façade du Crystal Palace. Signé :G. Dowler.
Reverse
Reverse legend : THE BUILDING FOR THE INTERNATIONAL EXEBITION / (SOUTH FRONT VIEW) / OPENED MAY 1.ST / 1862 //
COVERS A SPACE OF 26 ACRES.LENGTH 1200 FT. / WIDTH 700F!, HEIGHT 100 FT, NAVE 85 FT WIDE. / THE BUILDING IS OF BRICK.THE DOMES / ARE OF IRON AND GLASS. HEIGHT 250 FT. / AND 160 FT DIAM: AT BASE, / (THE LARGEST DOMES EVER ERECTED) COST £300,000 / -.
Reverse description : Façade ouest du Crystal Palace. Signé : G. Dowler.
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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