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Lot 584. China White metal medal n.d. [1848], Junk Keying

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The Junk Keying
China White metal medal n.d. [1848], Junk Keying

Time left: 		Bidding closed (Sunday, March 20th, 22:14:40 CET)
Current time: Saturday, April 27th, 00:43:15 CEST
Price realised: CHF 1'100.00 (9 bids)
Approx. EUR 1'124.13 / USD 1'206.13 / GBP 964.57
High bidder: Bidder 5

eAuction #75, Lot 584. Estimate: CHF 300.00

China. White metal medal n.d. [1848] (45 mm, 25.61 g), by Thomas Halliday. "Voyage of the Junk Keying".
Obv. THE CHINESE JUNK / "KEYING", starboard view of junk ship with three sails set.
Rev. Sixteen line inscription: THE FIRST JUNK / THAT EVER ROUNDED / THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. OR / APPEARED IN BRITISH WATERS. / HER DIMENSIONS ARE / LENGTH, 160FT, DEPTH OF HOLD, 12FT, / BURDEN, 800 TONS, CHINESE MEASUREMENT / RUDDER, 7 1/2 TONS, MAINSAIL, 9 TONS, / MAINMAST, 85FT LONG FROM DECK / THE SHIP IS BUILT OF TEAK WOOD / SHE SAILED FROM HONG KONG 6TH / DECEMBER 1846, ARRIVED IN / ENGLAND 27TH MARCH 1848 / 477 DAYS FROM CANTON / 'CAPTAIN KELLETT ' / COMMANDER.
BHM 2315.

Extremely fine.

This medal commemorates the first Chinese Junk boat to sail from China to England. The Keying was a three-masted, 800-ton Foochow Chinese trading junk which sailed from Hong Kong in 1846 around the Cape of Good Hope first to New York and Boston and then to Britain in 1848.



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