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Auction 31  17-19 May 2018
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Lot 2871

Starting price: 425 USD
Price realized: 550 USD
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CHINA: white metal medal, 1848, BHM-2314, 44mm, medal by J. Davis, Birmingham, "Voyage of the Junk Keying", starboard broadside mainsail set, THE CHINESE JUNK / KEYING in exergue // THE CHINESE JUNK / KEYING / LENGTH 160 FT, BREADTH / 33 FT, DEPTH OF HOLD 16FT, / HER STERN IS 35FT, HIGH OUT / OF THE WATER, HER MAIN CABIN / IS 30FT. LONG 25FT. WIDE, 12FT / HIGH, BURTHEN ABOUT 800 TONS, / HER RUDDER IS OF IMMENSE SIZE / & WEIGHT, BEING MADE OF IRON / WOOD, HER ANCHORS ARE MADE OF / WOOD, THE CABLES ARE MADE OF / BAMBOO, THE ROPES OF BAMBOO / RATTEN & INDIAN GRASS / ARRIVED IN THE RIVER / THAMES / MARCH 27, 1848, prooflike fields, Choice Unc. This medal commemorated the first Chinese Junk boat to sail from China to England. The Keying was a three-masted, 800-ton Foochow Chinese trading junk which sailed from Hong Kong China in 1846 around the Cape of Good Hope first to the New York and Boston in the United States and then to Britain in 1848.

Estimate: 500-600 USD
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