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Auction 74 12-13 Apr 2023
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China Trade, the voyage Chinese junk Keying, white metal medal, 1848, by Allen and Moore, starboard view of the junk, single sail from main mast, rev. legend in 18 lines, THE FIRST JUNK ... CAPTAIN KELLETT COMMANDER, 45mm. (BHM.2316; cf Eimer 1425), nearly extremely fine; and a smaller variety, by Thomas Halliday, starboard view of the junk, sails set on all masts, rev. legend in 10 lines, 27mm. (BHM.2323), small marks on reverse, good very fine (2)
The three-masted, teak-built Foochow Chinese trading junk Keying left Hong Kong on the 6th December 1846 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. Charles Alfred Kellett (born 1818), Master Mariner.
Estimate: 150 - 200 GBP
The three-masted, teak-built Foochow Chinese trading junk Keying left Hong Kong on the 6th December 1846 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. Charles Alfred Kellett (born 1818), Master Mariner.
Estimate: 150 - 200 GBP