Watch List notes:

Medals by Subject, Railways: France, Louis Napoleon, the opening of the Paris to Chartres and Tours to Angers railways, bronze medal, 1849, by Antoine Bovy, INAUGURATION DE CHEMINS DE FER, Paris std. holding a locomotive with, around her, the figures of Neptune, Armorica, the Rhine and Africa, rev. legend in 13 lines within wreath, 83.5mm. (Moyaux 141; Swan 259, this piece), some slight marks to obverse, extremely fine, reverse better
*ex Captain Ernest W. Swan Collection, Glendining [in conjunction with A. H. Baldwin], 17 April 1986, lot 259 and Baldwin's vault.