Watch List notes:

CHINA: white metal medal, 1848, BHM-2316, 45mm, medal by Thomas Halliday "Voyage of the Junk Keying", starboard view of junk ship with three sails set // eighteen line inscription, THE FIRST / CHINESE VESSEL EVER / BROUGHT TO EUROPE, OR EVEN / ROUNDED THE CAPE. / HER DIMENSIONS ARE- / LENGTH, 160fFT, BREADTH, 33FT, / DEPTH OF HOLD, 16FT, BURTHEN, 800 TONS / MAINMAST OF IRONWOOD 90FT LONG / THE SAILS ARE MADE OF STRONG MATTING, / THE MAINSAIL WEIGHS, NEARLY 9 TONS / HER 3 ANCHORS ARE MADE OF IRON-WOOD / THE RUDDER WEIGHS, 7 TONS / SHE IS AN EXCELLENT SEA-BOAT / AND MADE A VOYAGE FROM / BOSTON U. S. TO JERSEY / IN 21 DAYS. / ARRIVED AT ENGLAND / 27, MAR 1848, 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: 400-500 USD