A Small Collection of Medals and Tokens Related to Aviation
Flight of Charles Green and Isaac Sparrow at Oxford, 1823, copper, 23mm (Malpas 29), Billingsgate, Isaac Sparrow, 1826, copper, 23mm (Malpas 31; W 2870), Launch of R 101, 1929, an aluminium medal by J.R. Gaunt, 38mm, Death of Charles Lindbergh, 1974, a silver medal by J. Pinches, hallmarked London 1975, 44mm, edge stamped 0231, Amy Johnson, a silver medal, unsigned [by the Royal Mint], hallmarked gs [Gerald Sheehan] London 2005, 44mm; together with a bronze cliché of the Aero-Club de Belgique, a medalet of Maurice Drouhin and a related offprint by Evelyn Malpas from The Numismatist, November 1983 [8]. Fourth and fifth extremely fine, others generally about very fine
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