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Auction 58  30 Mar 2022
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Lot 37

Estimate: 350 GBP
Price realized: 200 GBP
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Australia, The Voyages of Captain James Cook, a complete set of 20 gilt silver medals, by Stuart Devlin for the Franklin Mint, issued in 1977, only in Australia, depicting the events between leaving Plymouth in 1768 up to his death in 1779, the obverses a visual depiction, with each titled on the reverse, each 39mm., and approx. wt. 20.22gms., each encapsulated and in card folder of posting (though lacking the display album), each with instructive descriptive card; duplicates in gilt (3): Sighting New Zealand; Landing at Botany Bay; and Reaching the Coast of Asia; another, silver, also Reaching the Coast of Asia; together with cupro-nickel medal of Franklin, for the Franklin Mint, all medals proof-like mint state (25)
The set seldom found for sale in the UK.
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