Baldwin's of St. James's
Auction 1 - Argentum 4 February 2017
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Medals by Subject, Exploration, Polar, the Vega Expedition to the North East Passage, 1878-1880, Copper Medal, 1880, by Lea Ahlborn, conjoined busts left of Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832-1901), Expedition leader and Adolf Arnold Louis Palander (1842–1920), Captain of the Vega, rev port-side portrait of the SS Vega amidst the ice, INVIA TENACI NULLA EST VIA, 48mm (Hy II, 255.1). Extremely fine.
The Vega Expedition was the first to navigate through the North East Passage between Europe and Asia, through the Arctic Ocean, and the first voyage to circumnavigate Eurasia. Since 1881 the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography has awarded a Vega Medal every three years.
The steamship Vega (367 tons gross and 299 tons net register), was constructed in 1872 at Bremerhaven as a sealer and whaler and was converted for the expedition in Sweden. She was subsequently acquired from Norwegian owners by Robert Ferguson of Dundee in 1903 and was crushed in the ice and sunk on 31 May, the same year, in Melville Bay, Greenland. (150 - 200 GBP)
The Vega Expedition was the first to navigate through the North East Passage between Europe and Asia, through the Arctic Ocean, and the first voyage to circumnavigate Eurasia. Since 1881 the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography has awarded a Vega Medal every three years.
The steamship Vega (367 tons gross and 299 tons net register), was constructed in 1872 at Bremerhaven as a sealer and whaler and was converted for the expedition in Sweden. She was subsequently acquired from Norwegian owners by Robert Ferguson of Dundee in 1903 and was crushed in the ice and sunk on 31 May, the same year, in Melville Bay, Greenland. (150 - 200 GBP)