Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

Guadeloupe, L’Epidémie du Choléra, 1865, a copper award medal by J.-J. Barre for the Ministère de la Marine et des Colonies, bust of Napoleon III right, rev. named (à Mr Charles. P.H. Jaspard, Médecin de la Marine de 2e Classe Épidémique Cholérique 1865), 60mm. About very fine £150-200

In October 1865 a cholera epidemic flared up which lasted until June the following year. Mahault Bay was the first and worst area hit by the epidemic and in total some 12,000 inhabitants perished