Baldwin's of St. James's
Auction 43 25 Mar 2020
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The Pavilion Collection, Commemorative Medals, Queen Caroline (1768-1821), of Brunswick, her return to England, trial and the Divorce [Pains and Penalties] Bill withdrawn, copper medal, 1820, by J. Westwood, the Queen stands on the bow of a Greek galley, in helmet and with spear topped with a Phrygian cap, QUEEN CAROLINE IN HER GRECIAN COSTUME ON BOARD THE POLACRE, rev. the Queen steps ashore, greeted by jubilant crowds, PROTECTED BY HER COUNTRY, 42.5mm. (BHM.-; obv. as rev. of BHM.1027/obv. of 1035; rev. as BHM.1023), with three suspension clasps (lacking suspender), nearly extremely fine, extremely rare and seemingly unpublished
Bt Mark Rasmussen, York Fair, July 2010
The obverse refers to the voyage from Syracuse to Jaffa and back to Sicily taken in 1816 on board a poleacre (a small Neapolitan sailing boat), owned and commanded by Captain Vincenzo Barquilo and renamed for the voyage as the Royal Charlotte (after her daughter with George). Caroline was alleged to have had 'adulterous intercourse' with Count Bartolomeo Bergami, under a tent on the deck. Not only is this combination of dies unrecorded, but none of the series of medals struck from the dies are recorded in copper or bronze. The medal is a great rarity.
(100-150 GBP)
Bt Mark Rasmussen, York Fair, July 2010
The obverse refers to the voyage from Syracuse to Jaffa and back to Sicily taken in 1816 on board a poleacre (a small Neapolitan sailing boat), owned and commanded by Captain Vincenzo Barquilo and renamed for the voyage as the Royal Charlotte (after her daughter with George). Caroline was alleged to have had 'adulterous intercourse' with Count Bartolomeo Bergami, under a tent on the deck. Not only is this combination of dies unrecorded, but none of the series of medals struck from the dies are recorded in copper or bronze. The medal is a great rarity.
(100-150 GBP)