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Medals Related to Motoring & Motor Sport, France, Automobile Club de France, silver prize medal (with traces of gilding), to “Deschamps”, legend, reverse woman seated in chariot among clouds, 68mm, cased (Gaz. Num. 1898, p. 23, 57). Extremely fine, lightly cleaned (£50-70)

Deschamps, a member of a company specialising in the building of speed boats, participated in the 1905 Folkestone to Boulogne race.