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Online Auction 7  4 May 2020
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Lot 227

Starting price: 70 USD
Price realized: 75 USD
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GERMANY: Weimar Republic, medal (15.14g), 1931, Kaiser-1030, Scheuch-2168q, 47mm white and gilt porcelain medal for the Post-Gatty Record World Flight by Meissen Porzellan Manufakture, Lockheed Vega 5-C flying right over globe of the Eastern Hemisphere with mintmark at lower center and POST-GATTY-WORLD-FLIGHT - 1931 around on white border // plane again flying right over Western Hemisphere with mintmark below and NEW-YORK BERLIN MOSKAU NOME FAIIRBANKS around on white border, less than 200 pieces made, gilt edge, UNC, R. In 1931, accompanied by navigator Harold Gatty, American Wally Post made a 14-stop world circuit in a little over eight days (12 days faster than the previous record set by the Graf Zeppelin in 1929).

Estimate: 125-175 USD
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