Baldwin & Sons
Auction 101 28 September 2016
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS BY SUBJECT, Exploration, Marine, France, Second Empire, Prince Jérôme Napoléon (1822-1891), Voyage to the Northern Seas, Silver Medal, 1856, by Albert Barre, bust left, rev VOYAGE DE S A I MGR LE PRINCE NAPOLEON DANS LES MERS DU NORD A BORD DE LA REINE HORTENSE ET DU COCYTE, 45mm (MH 213; Divo 325; Essling 2876). A very rare medal, reverse very fine, obverse nearly so but badly scuffed (it would seem that someone in the distant past tried to clean paint off the medal's obverse with a sharp implement).
The voyage in the Imperial yacht (a steam corvette), La Reine Hortense, accompanied by the smaller Cocyte, took Prince Jérôme Napoléon to the North Sea, Scotland, the Shetlands, Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and the Scandinavian countries. For his time in Iceland he was nick-named "Islenski Napoleon" (The Icelandic Napoleon). The Prince made a trip to the geysers only to discover Lord Dufferin encamped there. The plan to continue work from an 1835 expedition was not too successful as La Reine Hortense was not built for sailing under such extreme conditions.
Estimate: £500-700
The voyage in the Imperial yacht (a steam corvette), La Reine Hortense, accompanied by the smaller Cocyte, took Prince Jérôme Napoléon to the North Sea, Scotland, the Shetlands, Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and the Scandinavian countries. For his time in Iceland he was nick-named "Islenski Napoleon" (The Icelandic Napoleon). The Prince made a trip to the geysers only to discover Lord Dufferin encamped there. The plan to continue work from an 1835 expedition was not too successful as La Reine Hortense was not built for sailing under such extreme conditions.
Estimate: £500-700