Watch List notes:

Medals by Subject, Navigation: the voyage Chinese junk "Keying" and Mandarin Hesing, white metal medal, 1848, by Thomas Halliday, half-length bust of Hesing [He Sing], turned facing, in mandarin's robes and cap, MANDARIN HESING OF THE CHINESE JUNK, rev. legend in 15 lines, THIS REMARKABLE VESSEL IS A JUNK OF THE LARGEST CLASS...PURCHASED AUGUST 1846, AT CANTON, BY A FEW ENTERPRISING ENGLISHMEN..., 45mm. (BHM 2317), obverse very fine, reverse better
*ex Baldwin's vault
The three-masted, teak-built Foochow Chinese trading junk Keying left Hong Kong on the 6th December 1846, piloted by Master Mariner Charles Alfred Kellett (born 1818) and arrived in England on the 27th March 1848 (by way of St. Helena, New York, Boston and Jersey), the first known junk to both round Cape Horn and to enter British waters.
(100-150 GBP)