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E-auction 328-244736 - fme_445874 - GUERRE DE 1870-1871 Médaille de la communication aérienne

GUERRE DE 1870-1871 Médaille de la communication aérienne XF
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Estimate : 90 €
Price : 21 €
Maximum bid : 27 €
End of the sale : 29 July 2019 18:22:00
bidders : 7 bidders
Type : Médaille de la communication aérienne
Date: 1871
Mint name / Town : 75 - Paris
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 62,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver DEGEORGE Charles (1837-1888)
Weight : 112,65 g.
Edge : lisse + Corne BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Intéressante médaille, mais avec une patine hétérogène

Obverse


Obverse legend : PARIS 1870-1871.
Obverse description : Allégorie féminine assise sur un canon, recevant un pigeon voyageur en train de se poser.

Reverse


Reverse legend : MINISTÈRE DE LA GUERRE / COMMUNICATIONS AÉRIENNES.
Reverse description : Cartouche non inscrit sur une cage de pigeon voyageur.

Commentary


Charles Jean Marie Degeorge, dit Charles Degeorge, né le 31 mars 1837 à Lyon et mort le 2 novembre 1888 à Paris, est un sculpteur et médailleur français.

Cette médaille appartient à la même série que la médaille fme_445141, avec un même avers mais un revers différent.

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..

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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