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E-auction 520-435668 - fme_612860 - GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA Médaille, tunnel de la Tamise

GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA Médaille, tunnel de la Tamise AU
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Estimate : 100 €
Price : 25 €
Maximum bid : 25 €
End of the sale : 03 April 2023 19:46:20
bidders : 3 bidders
Type : Médaille, tunnel de la Tamise
Date: 1842
Mint name / Town : UK, Londres
Metal : zinc
Diameter : 64 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver DAVIS BIRM.
Weight : 122,2 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec des concrétions noires à l’avers et au revers. Traces de manipulation et légers frottements dans les champs. Présence de coups et rayures

Obverse


Obverse legend : SIR ISAMBART MARC BRUNEL . F. R. S. & C..
Obverse description : Tête nue à gauche, signé : DAVIS BIRM..

Reverse


Reverse legend : ROTHERHITE / ENTRANCE // THAMES TUNNEL 1200 FEET LONG / COMMENCED 1824. CMPLETED 1482 / 76 FRETELOW HIGH WATEM / COST 450 000 / - / SIR I.M. BRUNEL ENGINEER..
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 confondu avec le tunnel de Rotherhithe (en), ouvrage routier situé à environ 500 mètres en aval.

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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