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Auction: 25360 - The 360th Anniversary Sale
Lot: 15

QUEEN MARY'S OWN PRESENTATION GOLDEN JUBILEE MEDAL

Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, Ladies Issue, Gold Medal, 1887, with clasp for 1897, unsigned, by C. Emptmeyer after J. E. Boehm, VICTORIA D . G . REGINA ET IMPERATRIX F . D., bust left, diademed and veiled, rev. within wreath, IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 50TH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA 21 JUNE 1887., crown above, edge plain, 30.5mm, 30.11g, 12h (Eimer 1736 var.; BHM 3232 var.).
Loop with bow, very rare, one of only 133 struck issued to members of the Royal Family and their personal guests, some small contact marks but otherwise very fine.

Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee was celebrated on 20 and 21 June 1887, marking the fiftieth anniversary of her accession to the throne on 20 June 1837. The occasion featured a grand Thanksgiving Service at Westminster Abbey, diverging from the Biblical custom of celebrating the beginning of the fiftieth year. Instead, Queen Victoria chose to commemorate the completion of her fifty-year reign with a lavish banquet attended by fifty European kings and princes.

A total of 133 examples of this medal were struck in gold and presented to members of the Royal Family and their personal guests who took part in the Jubilee celebrations on 21 June 1887. It is likely that Prince Henry inherited this medal from his mother, Queen Mary, who (as Princess Mary of Teck) attended the festivities with her parents, the Duke and Duchess of Teck, and her three brothers, Princes Adolphus, Francis, and Alexander.



Provenance

From the Baumhauer Collection of British Medals

Baldwin's of St James's, Auction 43, March 2020, lot 644.

Family collection of H.R.H. The Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974), Christie's, December 2019, lot 11*





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Estimate
£3,000 to £4,000

Starting price
£3000