CHINA: white metal medal, 1848, BHM-, 23mm, medal by J. Davis, Birmingham, "Voyage of the Junk Keying", starboard broadside mainsail set, THE CHINESE JUNK KEYING above, DAVIS BIRM in exergue // LENGTH / 160 FEET / BREADTH 33 FEET / DEPTH OF HOLD / 16 FEET / BURTHEN ABOUT / 800 TONS, holed, prooflike fields, 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: 125-175 USD