Baldwin & Sons
Auction 90 24 September 2014
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Medals by Subject, Polar Exploration, Germany, Salomon August Andrée (1854-1897), attempt to reach the North Pole, White Metal Medal, 1896(7), by Augustus Högel, the balloon Oernen over partial globe, medallic insert of Andrée, rev Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (1861-1930), 1893, port view of the Fram, medallic insert of Nansen, 50mm (Malpas 156; MH III, 335). Nearly extremely fine.
Bad weather forced the postponement of the expedition from 1896 to the following year. Andrée and two crewmen, Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel, took off from Spitzbergen on the 11 July and vanished, their remains discovered by chance in 1930. Nansen had started on an expedition in 1895 but was forced to abandon ship. He was rescued at Cape Flora in June 1896. Nansen was later (1905) Norway's first ambassador to England
Estimate: £180-220
Bad weather forced the postponement of the expedition from 1896 to the following year. Andrée and two crewmen, Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel, took off from Spitzbergen on the 11 July and vanished, their remains discovered by chance in 1930. Nansen had started on an expedition in 1895 but was forced to abandon ship. He was rescued at Cape Flora in June 1896. Nansen was later (1905) Norway's first ambassador to England
Estimate: £180-220