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Auction 31  17-19 May 2018
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Lot 2874

Starting price: 180 USD
Price realized: 325 USD
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CHINA: white metal medal, 1848, BHM-2323, 27mm, medal by Thomas Halliday, "Voyage of the Junk Keying", starboard broadside view of the junk, mainsail set, THE CHINESE JUNK KEYING above, in exergue, BURDEN, 750 TONS // THE FIRST / CHINESE VESSEL / EVER BROUGHT TO / EUROPE / LENGTH 160 FEET / BREADTH 33 FEET / DEPTH OF HOLD / 16 FEET / ARRIVED AT ENGLAND / MAR 27 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: 200-300 USD
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