E-auction 595-559581 - fme_927470 - GUERRE DE 1870-1871 Médaille, Concours de l’état
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| Estimate : | 60 € |
| Price : | 36 € |
| Maximum bid : | 63 € |
| End of the sale : | 09 September 2024 20:48:00 |
| bidders : | 8 bidders |
Type : Médaille, Concours de l’état
Date: 1871
Mint name / Town : 75 - Paris
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 50,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver DEGEORGE Charles (1837-1888)
Weight : 59,63 g.
Edge : lisse + corne BRONZE
Puncheon : corne BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec quelques taches d’oxydation. Aspect nettoyé. Présence de traces d’usure, coups et rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : PARIS / 1870-1871 (À L’EXERGUE).
Obverse description : Allégorie féminine assise sur un canon, recevant un pigeon voyageur en train de se poser. Signé : C. DEGEORGE.
Reverse
Reverse legend : MINISTÈRE DE LA GUERRE // À L’EXERGUE : CONCOURS / DE L’ETAT.
Reverse description : Cartouche vierge sur une cage de pigeon voyageur, fort de Vauban à l’arrière plan. Signé : C. DEGEORGE.
Commentary
Médaille conservée dans une boîte rouge/marron à liseré doré.
Durant la guerre de 1870, particulièrement à l'occasion du siège de Paris des pigeons voyageurs ont été utilisés par les Français pour communiquer à l'insu de l'occupant prussien.
Medal preserved in a red/brown box with gold edging. During the war of 1870, particularly during the siege of Paris, carrier pigeons were used by the French to communicate without the knowledge of the Prussian occupier.
Durant la guerre de 1870, particulièrement à l'occasion du siège de Paris des pigeons voyageurs ont été utilisés par les Français pour communiquer à l'insu de l'occupant prussien.
Medal preserved in a red/brown box with gold edging. During the war of 1870, particularly during the siege of Paris, carrier pigeons were used by the French to communicate without the knowledge of the Prussian occupier.
Historical background
GUERRE DE 1870-1871
(1870-1871)
In a foreword, Jean-Pierre Collignon writes: "In 1870, France was surprised because it had to be and because it deserved it. The resulting war demonstrated that the imperial army did not had been able to play its role of cover which would have given the nation time to run to arms and launch its masses of combatants against the enemy, because minds were not prepared, in the government, in the high command and in public opinion; the army was sacrificed in an unequal and badly conducted fight before the necessary was done to allow the country which was counting on not participating directly in the fight to arm itself under its protection. when this one will have succumbed under the number, it will be too late so that the rising in masses can overcome, for lack of cadres, the latter then surrounded in Metz or prisoners of the Germans.This is the whole history of the war of 1870.".
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