Watch List notes:

COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS BY SUBJECT, Maritime, Three Cruises of the TSS Neptunia, 1926 to Norway and Spitzberg, small Silvered-bronze Medal, polar bear on floe with mountains beyond, observes the ship, rev crown above legend, suspension loop; France, Société de Topographie de France, founded in Paris, 1875, Silvered-bronze Medal, awarded 1890, to "M Jassy Sergent au 106e de Ligne", crowned shield of arms on flags, rev engraved naming within wreath. First extremely fine, the second very fine. (2)
In 1926 the TSS Neptunia was owned by the Sitmar Line [Societa Italiana Trasporti Marittimi] and it made three luxury cruises to Spitzberg in the summer of 1926. It was a ship with a chequered history with Sitmar intending her for Mediterranean cruises. Built in 1913 as North German Lloyd's Sierra Salvada; seized by the Brazil in 1917 and renamed Avare; returned to Germany after the War and again renamed Peer Gynt. In 1926 she operated for the Sitmar Line as the Neptunia before being returned to Germany the following year for another change of name, Oceana. In 1945, after World War II she became an "Empire" ship under a British flag, the Empire Tarne, before finally ending her days in 1946, as the Russian Sibir.

Estimate: £80-100