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Auction 57  14 Apr 2021
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Lot 282

Estimate: 100 GBP
Price realized: 90 GBP
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The Portland Collection, Commemorative Medals, Aviation: Germany, Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld and Hermann Köhl, the First East to West Trans-Atlantic flight, silver medal, unsigned, 1928, conjoined busts l., wearing helmets and goggles, rev. the Bremen, a Junkers W33, flies low over a calm ocean, edge stamped, BAYER. HAUPTMÜNZAMT. SILBER 900 F, 36mm. (Kaiser 931; FM [1979] 197); the same flight, but with the Irish co-pilot, Captain James Fitzmaurice, added to the conjoined busts, silver medal, 1928, by O. Glöckler, rev. the Bremen seen end-on, above stylised waves, 36mm. (Kaiser 933, FM [1979] 215), both matt, the first patinated, both nearly extremely fine (2)
Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld (1892-1929), owner; Hermann Köhl (1888-1938), pilot; Captain James Fitzmaurice, DFC (1898–1965), co-pilot.
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