Coins, Historical Medals and Antiquities

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
£60-£80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals and Tokens Related to Aviation.

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