Watch List notes:

CHINA: white metal medal, ND [1843], BHM-2107, 45mm, medal by Thomas Halliday, CHUN AH-YOU OF THE CHINESE COLLECTION above bust of Ah-You three-quarters right in mandarin's robes and cap // legend in thirteen lines, THE CELEBRATED / CHINESE COLLECTION / [FROM HYDE PARK CORNER] / VISITED BY THE QUEEN / THE QUEEN DOWAGER AND / ALL THE ROYAL FAMILY / NOW EXHIBITING IN LIVERPOOL / "THERE IS NO EXHIBITION CAN COMPARE / "WITH IT IN ORIENTAL RANDEUR / "AND BEAUTIFUL ARRANGMENT" / THE TIMES! / AYOU WILL ATTEND EACH / DAY AND EVENING, Unc. The collection was formed by Nathan Dunn, a Philadelphia-born China Trade merchant, and was first exhibited in that city in 1839 in a purpose-built museum. A report of the exhibition states "What increases the interest of the scene, is a young Chinese, in full costume, who walks about the Hall, explaining things to the visitors in bad English, and with a most amiable manner that shows he is gratified in being useful." No doubt this is Chun Ah-You who accompanied the exhibition to London in 1841. The collection was initially exhibited in Hyde Park in a special pagoda, then in Liverpool, before it was returned to the United States following Dunn's death in 1844. It was brought back to England again in 1851 for the Great Exhibition, where it was now much ignored and on 10 December 1851, Christie's auctioned "The Celebrated Assemblage ... collected by the late Nathan Dunn".

Estimate: 400-500 USD